TREKKING THE GREAT THIRST

Edited by A.E. Nellen with an introductory note by Sir Ralph Williams and a foreword by F.C. Selous.

 First edition. 359 pages, frontispiece, 84 illustrations, 4 folding maps, original green cloth, decorated front cover and spine gilt, top edge gilt, corners lightly bumped, a very good copy. 

F.C. Selous writes in his foreword, 'Mr Hodson's narrative of his very arduous journeys through the true Kalahari, from Kayne to Lehututu and thence to Lake Ngami and the eastern frontier of Damaraland, deals with regions as little known to geographers and travellers probably as any part of Central Africa today, and it is a country, it must be acknowledged, which is not likely to prove attractive to sportsmen or travellers who study their comfort. On the other hand, Mr Hodson's experiences show that the northern portions of the Bechuanaland Protectorate are still well supplied with game and well worth the attention of all those big-game hunters who have not yet secured the trophies of the gemsbok, the kudu, the roan and the sable antelope - four species which must always be reckoned amongst the very finest of all African game animals, and all four of which, not to mention the great southern eland - the largest in body of all elands - the situtunga, leechewe, puku, and many other antelopes, as well as lions and leopards, are all to be met with in this part of Africa’.