IN WILDEST AFRICA [2 volumes]

Hutchinson & Co, London, 1907. Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 716p. 2 volume set. Frontis. port., 86 pls. (incl. in pagination), text illust. and translated by Frederic Whyte from the original German. Publishers brown buckram with block illus. to the front boards of an elephant face-on within a black circle. A very good set with slight fading and wear. With Over 300 Photographic Studies Direct From the author's own negatives  This set now hard to find. Size: large 8vo

A follow-up to "With Flashlight and Rifle" with further hunting adventures in East Africa and a plea to take "active steps to prevent the complete extermination of wild life". A scarce work by an early animal conservationist and pioneer of animal photography of African wild life as well as night photography. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" (from the introduction).