LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS; OR WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA

1 volume. First edition 1846.

Rebound with original cover and spine laid down.

xii, [1], 318 pages.

Tissue-guarded frontispiece.

2 full-page plates + in-text vignettes.

Spotting and staining throughout. 

"A journal of an eight months' sporting expedition through the

Eastern Province to the Orange and Vaal Rivers, Waterboer's

country and thence in a north-easterly direction to the junction

of the Mariqua and Limpopo Rivers as far as Moselekatse's old

capital in what was afterwards known as the Transvaal.

The party hunted through the Hantam' district eventually arriving

at Campbell where they met Livingstone, who had just returned from

Mobatze, suffering from an encounter with a lion. Many valuable botanical

and geological notes will found in the work. . . The main interest of the

volume, centres on the description of the game animals, and there are a

number of well-drawn illustrations of the heads and horns of various species

of antelopes met with in the course of the expedition" [Mendelssohn II, p.6].

"An early work of travel and sport, in this the author trekked to the Orange

and Vaal rivers, eventually venturing into Griqualand during an eight-month

sporting safari. He hunted elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, eland, sable,

giraffe, gemsbock, and other game, including quite a few encounters with

buffalo: '... a man is safer even under the paws of a wounded lion , than under 

the head of an infuriated buffalo'. Much of the book is written in journal form."

[Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books,

1785 to 1950, p.114]. 

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