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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Foran (W. Robert)

A CUCKOO IN KENYA

The reminiscences of a pioneer police officer in British East Africa with a foreword by Lord Cranworth. Illustrated with photographs by the author and others.

Published: Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936

Edition: First Edition

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First edition. 360 pages, frontispiece, profusely illustrated with photographs, red cloth titled in black on the spine, which is starting to fade, light foxing in the text and on the page edges, map of Kenya on the end papers, a good copy.

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William Robert Foran (1881-1968) was a British Army officer, big game hunter and travel writer. Foran trained at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and achieved the rank of Major during the Second Boer War. He traveled from Johannesburg to Mombasa, Kenya in 1904, and then to the newly founded city of Nairobi to buy land for farming. While in Nairobi, Foran was recruited by the British East Africa Police, becoming one of its six original officers.

Foran distinguished himself as a big game hunter and wrote numerous articles and books based on his adventures, including Kill or Be Killed: The Rambling Reminiscences of an Amateur Hunter, published in 1933, which includes stories about fellow big game hunters W. D. M. Bell and Chauncey Hugh Stigand. Foran worked as a travel writer for the National Geographic Society. He lived out the last years of his life in Nanyuki, Kenya, and died in 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Robert_Foran

  • Overall Condition: A Good Copy
  • Size: 8vo (240 x 160 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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