ON SAFARI; BIG-GAME HUNTING IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA WITH STUDIES IN BIRD-LIFE

With 170 illustrations by the author and E. Caldwell, sketch-maps and photographs. xvi, 340 pages, 4 pages publisher’s advertisements, frontispiece, 35 plates, numerous text illustrations including maps. Original dark grey cloth with gilt titling on front cover and spine and grey and white vignette of elephant’s head outlined in gilt on front cover, edges uncut. Light insect scarring and some bubbling of the cloth, small split in the cloth at the top of the spine, the endpapers are lightly foxed but the contents are bright, a good copy.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 35, ‘A prolific sporting author, Chapman combined fluid writing style with his exciting experiences hunting in British East Africa. He followed the Uganda Railway, with hunting excursions toward Lake Elementeita and also westward to the Enderit River and along Lake Nakuru. On a 1904 hunt, Chapman describes his trek across the Athi Plains. There are plentiful hunting experiences, including lion, waterbuck, rhino, elephant, gazelle, eland, kudu, and buffalo. The illustrations are plentiful and come from photographs and the talented pen of Edmund Caldwell.’