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Dickinson (Captain Francis Arthur)

LAKE VICTORIA TO KHARTOUM WITH RIFLE & CAMERA

Published: John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1910

Edition: First Edition

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With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill and numerous illustrations from photographs taken by the author

First edition. xix, 334 pages, 22 publisher’s catalogue, photographic frontispiece, 47 photographic plates, original red cloth with gilt titling on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, a very good copy.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 page 81: Dickinson provides details of where to hunt the major game of the Uganda southern Sudan region, from the highlands to the Sudd of the Nile. He served as Winston Churchill’s escort from Lake Victoria to Gondokoro and includes two chapters on elephant hunting.

  • Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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