Author:
LYELL D.D.
Title:
Nyasaland For The Hunter And Settler
Price:
£720.00
Year:
1912
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Horace Cox
Summary:
xi, 116 pages, frontis + 18 pates from photographs + 4 plate of spoor and a sketch map of Nyasaland. The last 16 pages and rear paste down are adverts many are for rifles and ammunition and related items many with illustrations. Ownership signatures to the front-end paper. Some occasional foxing mostly to the early pages. Publishers green bevelled cloth with gilt title and antelope vignette, the cloth clean with no chips or rubbing. A very good copy. "While not a book of hunting adventures, this slender work does provide plenty of information on choosing a big-game rifle as well as the varieties of game encountered in Nyasaland. Several of the plates depict the spoor of wild beasts, a theme Lyell continued in later works. As he notes: 'To spoor an animal for miles is far more interesting than killing it, for tracking game is the highest branch of good hunting.' Of additional interest are the ads at the end of the book depicting all manner of British sporting firearms, ammunition, and equipment." p173 Czech
Ref:
23901
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