BEING AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY ON BICYCLES AND ON FOOT FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA, PAST THE GREAT LAKES, TO EGYPT, UNDERTAKEN WHEN PROCEEDING HOME ON LEAVE IN 1910
xvii, 305 pages, photographic frontispiece, 45 black and white photographic plates, folding map showing the author’s route in red, original brick red cloth with gilt vignette on upper board and gilt titling on spine, corners slightly bumped, some staining to endpapers with light foxing on the title page, some light foxing but contents generally good.
Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 113, ‘Using bicycles as a break from the monotony of “foot slogging,” Melland and Cholmeley set out from Kasama with the intention of traveling to the Nile. Passing through German East Africa near the shores of Lake Tanganyika, the pair bagged leopard and numerous crocodile. In the Bogoma forest near the Albert Nyanza, elephant was hunted, with additional chapters on hunting elephant in the Masindi District in Uganda. An interesting work of travel and sport complete with numerous bicycle breakdowns.
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