Sport and Travel in East Africa

London Philip Allan, 1934. First Edition: Hardback, buff bds., gold titles, 145 x 225 mm., 800g., 273 pp., with Index and large pull-out map in rear + a further 2 large pull-out maps (coloured) and 37 reproductions of photographs taken by His Royal Highness and others, very light edge wear, very scarce pictorial dust jacket. Wrapper has loss to spine and is heavily chipped but mainly complete.

Edward, the Prince of Wales, will now be remembered as the British Monarch who abdicated the throne in order to marry his 'commoner' love. He was, however, for both good and ill, noteworthy for his travels and outspoken nature, the former including Big Game hunting trips to Africa. This work, however, was not primarily a hunting expedition: "Yet H.R.H. had not come to Kenya to collect heads. His main object was to observe, to photograph and to film big game; which, to accomplish artistically, is infinitely more difficult than to approach, 'get in' to and shoot a wild beast at rifle range and without risk to yourself. The rifles in the camp kit were therefore mainly for defensive purposes."