First edition: 226 pages + (18) publisher's list, frontispiece of Mr Churchill and the rhinoceros at Simba, 3 maps – 1 folding, 37 black and white plates, 24 illustrations, text lightly foxed, original pictorial red cloth, a good copy.
Czech (Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999 page 62:This was originally published in a shorter version as several articles in the British periodical, The Strand in early 1908.Churchill crossed British East Africa via the uganda Railroad reaching Kampala and beginning his safari. At Simbax Station oryx and rhinowere hunted. After arrivng at Murchison Falls, he bagged a white rhino. His party contiued along the White Nile where hippo, waterbuck reedbuck and roan were collected with Col Wilson of the hunting party bagging an elephant.
Cohen (Ronald I.) Bibliography of the writings of Sir Winston Churchill A 27.1 Volume 1 pages 153 - 154 ' Published December 1908 , price 5s. A total of 12,500 copies were printed.
Woods (Frederick) A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill (1963), A12.
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