Facsimile reproduction of the 1893 edition.Beind the narrative of the last 11 years by the author on the Zambesi hunting big game and elephant.Illustrated throughout with frontis of Selous signed and tissue guarded.Tan cloth boards with gold titles and pictorial native and a pair of lions on front cover.Mint book,quality binding,great read. The author spent eleven years traveling the interior of South Africa and records his hunting adventures; experiences among the Boers; accounts of the two expeditions sent against the Batauwani by Lobengula; an account of the Matabele uprising in Mashonaland; and supplies notes on the "bushmen" of South Africa. Selous also records an account of an incident in the interior in which he was separated and lost from his party. He was one of the earliest to chronicle hunting in Africa. An important book. Seller Inventory # 000113

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Title: TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Publisher: Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: None

Edition: 1st Edition

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