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Auction #130 begins on 09 Apr 2026

Savile (Frank)

THE HIGH GRASS TRAIL

Being the difficulties and diversions of two; trekking and shooting for sustenance in dense bush across British Central Africa. Illustrated from photographs

Published: H.F. & G Witherby, London, 1924

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50/60

Bidding opens: 9 Apr 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 16 Apr 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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First Edition: 251 pages, frontispiece of the Lower Shire River, 5 black and white plates, black and white illustrations, original red cloth, titled gilt with an antelope head motif on the spine,  a very good copy.

Czech (Dr Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, page 246: Savile and his wife crossed Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia during high grass season - “the season in which the intelligentsia of shikar do not usually attempt to shoot.” The author's party hunted the Vipya Highlands in the vicinity of Lake Nyasa, bagging bushbuck, waterbuck and encountering elephants. His most enjoyable passages relate his experiences stalking buffalo and elephant in the tall grass regions near Msora. He also collected eland, kudu, impala and other plains game.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (220 x140mm)


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