With a Chapter on Eastern India.
Second impression: 268 pages, frontispiece, 47 illustrations, original cloth neatly recased – the cloth is a little dull, newspaper cuttings pasted on the second front free endpaper and the verso of the illustration at page 237 which has off-set onto the facing page, some light foxing on pages 10-15 otherwise the contents are good.
Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), page 174, ‘In this autobiographical work, Lyell recounts his earliest travels in Mashonaland, heading into the interior after eland, nyala and lion. He continued in Nyasaland where he bagged kudu, lion, impala, sable and hippopotamus. He collected his first elephant using a Gibbs .303 magazine rifle (which he has only fired three practice rounds through!). Lyell devotes a lengthy chapter to his continuing elephant experiences, and includes hunts for buffalo, rhinoceros, eland and lion near Lake Victoria.’
- Binding Condition: Good
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