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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Letcher (Owen)

THE BONDS OF AFRICA

Published: John Long, Limited, London, 1913

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Impressions of Travel and Sport from Cape Town to Cairo 1902 -1912.

267 pages, 50 photographic illustrations including the frontispiece, colour folding map at the end, original green cloth. The cloth is dull, creased and lightly stained, spine faded with wear at the top and bottom, foxing throughout.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), page 164, 'Letcher spent time hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia's Luangwa Valley after elephant and Rhinoceros. In British East Africa he bagged buffalo along the Guaso Nyiro River as well as gerenuk, giraffe, oryx, gazelle and other game. An often overlooked work with considerable big game hunting.'

  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Fair
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 140 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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