Published by Walter Scott Publishing Co., London, 1912. 1st edition. Original blue cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Edition. xxi + 290pp. frontispiece portrait, 57 plates, 1 folded map, publisher's original. blue cloth binding wth gilt natives on the front board and spine,. wear and chipping to spine ends. Clean, tight, hinges good, light foxing. Bookplate of Robert Gurney.
Well-illustrated account of a year's attachment to the King's African Rifles in Uganda which included extensive travel, big game hunting & a frontier expedition.
Dion Lardner was a British army officer who in late 1909 was seconded to the King's African Rifles under the Colonial Office in the British Empire's newest colony - the Uganda Protectorate. He did not see combat while in Uganda, but he did travel all around the country and was present on the Uganda-Congo border when the border was re-drawn to slightly expand Uganda. Lardner started in Mombasa in the British East Africa Protectorate and took the Uganda Railway. He travelled throughout the Central Africa Lakes region - crossing Victoria Nyanza, before continuing north between Lakes Kioga and Albert Nyanza, and then heading west all the way to Lake Kivu.
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