Exploring by Ellen Gatti (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Faded spine. Foxing on the end papers and on closed page edges. No jacket, no writing inside.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; Physical desc. : x, 302 p. : illus. , ports. ; 23 cm. Subject: Congo (Democratic Republic) - Description and travel. 3 Kg.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lightly bumped, minimal wear. Spine cocked. Minor foxing to edges.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; Physical desc. : x, 302 p. : illus. , ports. ; 23 cm. Subject: Congo (Democratic Republic) - Description and travel. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 302 pages. spine cloth faded very light spotting.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Travel Book Club ardback, reprint 1951, with unclipped jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition in a poor dust jacket with some signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket generally worn with several large chips (now protected), green cloth boards a little rubbed but remain overall clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight; no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 302 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First UK. Green boards, gilt titling to spine, clean, corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Name/Writing on front endpaper. Black and white frontis. Illustrated in black and white. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. ; 004373; 8vo Thick.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. 302 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Robert Hale, London, 1950. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in fair condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have moderate rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Hinges are split at front and back making binding loose. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; Inventory No: 17020312.

Tall 8vo. x, 302 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Green publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover art by CWB (minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear), still VG/VG copy. First British edition, of this adventure memoir recounting Ellen Waddil Gatti's experiences on an expedition into the Belgian Congo in search of the rare Okapi, with her husband Attilio Gatti, detailing her efforts to build a jungle home, grow a vegetable garden, and experience with many of the Indigenous African peoples.

Second Edition. / Rare in collectible condition with dustjacket. Octavo. VIII, 302 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes content such as: Kenya Colony / S.S. Llandaff Castle / Kakitumba Camp / The Masters of Africa / The Roda For-mi-da-ble / Birth of Tzamboho / Life as a Female Overseer / Nyanza / M'Tembo Swamp / Indian Summer of Tzamboho / etc. Commander Gatti's wife writes of her initiation into exploring, with an evaluation of the plus and minus of such kind of life.How she met her husband through lecture agency work and before his divorce had gone through, how she went with him in spite of that when he was commissioned to get okapi in Africa.Hitting London, Paris and his family in Italy for her first foreign traveling, landing in Kenya and building up the expedition for its work, then into the jungle, where her adventures and misadventures proved her the variest greenhorn. There's fun in her response to new experiences, in learning how to cope with new responsibilities, in adapting herself to new ways of life, from kitchen problems to hunting in the bush, clothing, health and manpower. When Gatti was at last free came the many obstacles to getting married. Two years later came the necessity of return to civilization, with its humorous note a pleasant relief from the routine book of the kind. (Source: Kirkus / Publisher). Attilio Gatti (b. 1896 - d. 1969) was an Italian explorer, author and film-maker who travelled extensively through Africa in the first half of the 20th century. He is known in documentary circles for his film Siliva the Zulu (1927). Gatti was among the last great safari expedition men. He led ten expeditions to Africa over a 23-year period prior to 1945. He became one of the Europeans to see the fabled Okapi, and the Bongo, a brown Lyre horned antelope with white stripes. He was an enthusiastic amateur radio operator, his callsign in the Belgian Congo was OQ5ZZ, and tried to operate from the Congo deep inland regions. He knew the Pygmy peoples of the Congo Regions very well. He wrote many books on his expeditions, including Killers All!, The New Africa, Here is Africa, Saranga the Pygmy, Africa is Adventure, Kamanda the African Boy, Great Mother Forest, Mediterranean Spotlights, Here is the Veld, Tom Toms in the Night, and South of the Sahara, (Robert McBride & Company 1945). Gatti's books contain invaluable anthropological material from his descriptions of the native peoples he met. Gatti also took good photos of Pygmys and Watussi. He met an important female python shaman. He became experienced with African magic and an entire world which has since disappeared. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 302 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Acceptable dust jacket that is missing one 1" x 2" piece at the heel of the spine. Inscribed by author on front end paper "To Dr. Charles Seelig, Cordially, Ellen Gatti". Inscribed by Author(s).