Travel and Adventure in South East Africa. Selous. 1st edn 1893.

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Secondhand, 1st Edn, 1893
G Cond, Some stain damage to fly, tight binding

Frederick Courteney Selous recounts eleven years of hunting game and gathering fauna specimens in this first edition of 'Travel and Adventure in South East Africa' A first edition of 'Travel and Adventure in South East Africa', in which Frederick Courteney Selous recounts the eleven years he spent in the region. With 35 in-text illustrations, 22 full page plates, and a folding map, collated and complete. In twenty six chapters, Selous describes his experiences collecting fauna samples, narrates hunting exploits, as well as reminiscing about his travels to the countries of the Mashukulumbwi and Barotsi tribes. Selous was a revered hunter in the 1890s, yet the friend of Theodore Roosevelt and Cecil Rhodes was also a conservationist and encouraged colonial governments to establish game reserves to prevent the extinction of species. Over his life time, Selous donated more than 5000 plant and animal specimens to the natural history section of the British museum.
Representative pix only, later edn pixed.

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