A BREATH FROM THE VELDT

236 pages, frontispiece, title page vignette and 12 plates, numerous text illustrations, pictorial cream buckram, top edge gilt, a very good copy in the original publisher's box which is worn and split at two corners.

Number 191 of an edition limited to 750 copies.

Perhaps the best of the facsimile reprints of Southern African hunting and colour plate books. Produced by 'Books of Rhodesia' and printed in Bulawayo, the publisher took great care to simulate as closely as possible the heavy coated paper on which the original text and the stiff card on which the electro-etchings were printed.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, page 196, 'Highlighted by the author's detailed illustrations, this work represents Millais's journey toward the Limpopo River with excursions to hunt kudu, reedbuck, waterbuck, sable and roan. Near the Nuanetsi River, he bagged buffalo and zebra. After leaving the Limpopo, he collected trophy kudu, as well as lion and leopard. A most readable and visually exciting book of African travel and big game hunting.'