A COLONY IN THE MAKING

Half leather rebound with gilt lettering on spine, new end pages, pp. xiv + 359, frontis with tissue guard, b&w plates, large fold-out map. Small library stamps on verso of title page, foxing throughout, some staining to lower edges of a few pages, tear to map fixed with selotape, else good.

Extracted from Czech (Kenneth), An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, (Trophy Room Books, Agoura, 2011), page 69: "While primarily a description of British East Africa, the author provides considerable information on big game, its location, methods of stalking and the game reserves. He lists rhinoceros, hippopotamus and zebra as pests, and describes a curious creature called the gu-gu, an apelike creature with but one eye and a huge spike at the end of one arm. Indeed!”