TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA

Being the narrative of the last eleven years spent by the author on the Zambesi and its tributaries;

With an account of the colonisation of Mashunaland and the progress of the gold industry in that country.

First edition: 503 pages + 5 pages publisher's catalogue, frontispiece portrait of the author, 22 plates, 35 illustrations in the text, colour folding map, light brown cloth with gilt vignette of lions on the upper cover, tiled in black with gilt vignette on the spine, the cloth is starting to wear along the edges and the spine is frayed at the top and the bottom, starting to wear at the hinges, the cloth is faded and worn, the corners are bumped, a good copy.

Czech (Kenneth) An annotated bibliography of African Big game hunting Books 1785 -1999, page 251 - 252, 'In this work recounting eleven years of exploration, work and sport in the 1880's and 1890's, Selous describes numerous adventures with lions and leopards, particularly near the Zambezi, Zweswi, and Manyami Rivers, with additional sport after rhinoceros, eland and hartebeest. After returning to the Transvaal, he linked with Montague Kerr and travelled into Matabeleland. Selous hunted more lions and rhinoceros, and vividly depicts an elephant hunt near the Zweswi River. In 1886, he hunted through Mashonaland, but was forced to escape after his camp was destroyed by hostile tribesmen. Eventually reaching the Zambezi, he hunted lion and lost a canoe to a hippopotamus. He concludes with a chapter on rifles, and another reflecting earlier sporting adventures after elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo and others.'

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol 2 page 300: After a short visit to England in 1881, Selous returned to South Africa in order to make collections of specimens of some South African fauna for the " British Museum " and the " South African Museum," &c. He was thus engaged from 1882 to 1887, and the first nine chapters of this volume are devoted to a narrative of his experiences with the Boers and the natives while engaged in his hunting expeditions, together with some account of the native wars and the raids of the Matabeles.

Other chapters give particulars of journeys amongst the Mashikolumbwe and Barotsi people, the pioneer expeditions of the British South Africa Company, and the condition of Mashonaland, with notes on its previous history, the gold- mining industry in Rhodesia at this period, and reminiscences of hunting and adventure extending over a lengthy period. There are many interesting passages referring to the author's intercourse with Mr. Frank Mandy, C. J. Rhodes, Dr. Jameson, Sam Edwards, Montague Kerr, Lobengula, Khama, and many other celebrated South African personages and pioneers, and an excellent account of the Chartered Company's expedition to Mashonaland, in which Mr. Selous took prominent part, together with some details respecting the disputes with the Portuguese officials.