1 volume. Second edition 1885.
A narrative of the Royal Geographical Society’s expedition
to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza 1883 -1884.
Publishers green cloth with gilt title, black bordered and gilt vignette.
Gilt title to spine.
Colour endpapers.
xii, 583 pages.
Frontispiece plate with tissue-guard.
Title vignette.
Full-page plates.
In-text illustrations.
2 large fold-out colour maps [some old tape repairs].
One of the great African travel epics, this title details
the author's trek from the coast toward Mt. Kilimanjaro,
then through Masai Land. Near lake Chala, he bagged
several rhinoceros and buffalo in close encounters, and
buffalo again in the Lykipia Forest. One of the excellent
engravings depicts Thomson thrown into the air by a
charging bull. Near Lake Baringo, he collected a new
species o f gazelle newly christened with is name, and
bagged elephant and buffalo. Handsomely Illustrated,
[Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game
Hunting Books 1785 to 1950, p.164.].
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