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(Alberton: Galago, 1986) 0947020160. The text is a facsimile of the 1908 Macmillan 1st edition. Large 8vo; original green boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. xxx + 356, incl. index; plates. Spine panel of dustwrapper very slightly sunned; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. Kenneth Czech describes this work as follows: 'A wide-ranging work that discusses everything from the coloration of African big game to the extinction of some species in South Africa. There are plenty of big-game hunting episodes, which Selous uses to accent his chapters on Cape buffalo, black rhinoceros, and lion, among others. Written at a time when there was a noticeable depletion of the great game herds, he becomes almost lyrical in his longing for the old days: "but no man will ever again sit by a camp fire near one of the little rivers ... eating prime pieces of fat elephant's heart, roasted on a forked stick, nor watch the…
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African Nature Notes and Reminiscences Hardcover - 1986
by SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY
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- Title African Nature Notes and Reminiscences
- Author SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY
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- Date 1986
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