Briggs Ellis Ormsbee 1899 1976 (1 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1958). (1957) 1958 1st UK edition. 8vo (155 x 240mm). Ppviii,149. B/w illustrations by Rudolf Freund. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Corners slightly bumped, browning to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in slightly frayed and used dust-wrapper. An entertaining account of an American diplomat's extra-curricular hunting and shooting expeditions in South America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe: collecting giant frogs in Peru, wildfowling in Patagonia and Korea, gamebird shooting in Liberia, Czechoslovakia and Korea, and bat-shooting in China. Chapters include: The biggest frog in the world; Snakes, pepper birds, and wild guineas in Liberia; Dona Mercedes and the wild geese of Patagonia; No hasta el postre - meaning, you can't throw rolls until dessert; Pokey and the Chungking flying bat sweepstake; How to shoot non-communist pheasants in Czechoslovakia; Pheasants, vice admirals, and Lohengrin in Korea; The pheasants of Cheju Island; A helicopter is a duck's best friend; Animal interlude - with bears. .…