Safari A Chronicle of Adventure

Published by Viking, 1988. 1st edition. Maps; 10.8 X 8.8 X 1.4 inches; 383 pages; Hard cover is grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with maps and b/w and color pictures. Dust jacket has light rubbing, scuffing; a little fade to spine.. Inscription.

' The story of 150 years of the ultimate adventure, from the first safari in 1836, as Cornwallis Harris walked across Transvaal with his double-barreled rifle and ox-wagon, discovering the hunter's Garden of Eden, to the last of the great professional hunters, as they struggle today to carry on their tradition in the swamps of Tanzania and the high forests of Ethiopia. Safari examines the ethics of hunting and the apparent dilemma of the hunter-conservationists. Against a backdrop of tribal, colonial and wildlife history, it documents developments in weapons and transport, in game control and conservation, and it reveals the attraction that has never changed, the magical freedom, beauty and excitement of the African bush."