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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Shorthose (lieut.-Col. W.T.)

SPADE AND SPORT IN PAGANLAND

Being the Narrative of a Rolling Stone in Nigeria

Published: H.F. & G. Witherby, London, 1934

Edition: First Edition

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224 pages, 10 illustrations, fold map, orange cloth, book plate on front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 – 1999, page 255. The author travelled to Nigeria in the late 1920's, visiting tin mines and native tribes before embarking on an elephant and buffalo hunt in the Ningi Forest. On a second trip in 1929, he stalked elephant near Ewu, than was back in 1931,hunting buffalo and elephant in the Annam Forest near the Niger River. He felt sportsmen were missing a good hunting area in West Africa due to the lure of the great game fields of Eastern Africa.

  • Jacket Condition: Very good
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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