Description: Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa: Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambezi and its Tributaries; with an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in That Country by Frederick Courteney Selous, Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London, 1893, 503pp, cloth, 6.5 x 9", 8vo Fair condition. Wear and staining to boards. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Title in gilt on spine. Gilt illustration of lions on front board. Tearing to headcap. Rear joint and hinge are cracked. Provenance in ink on half title page. Frontispiece of the author opposite title page. Minor toning, tea-staining, and finger-staining throughout textblock. Binding is cracked. Illustrated. Please see photos. Please be aware that the mentioned on title page is missing from this copy; however, a print out of the map has been included. Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 - 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional character Allan Quatermain. Selous was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes, and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. He was also the older brother of the ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous. FORN-TUB-0045-XX-2406-JC849
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
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Author: Frederick Courteney Selous
Publisher: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited
Topic: Hunting, Fishing
Subject: Sports & Recreation
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