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    Reference 3530 (1820)
    Category Other travel
    Author Schillings, C.G. (Translated by Frederic Whyte)
    Title In Wildest Africa 2 Volume Set
    Publishing Information Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907
    Description 1st Edition 2 volume set: xiv, 716 pages, illustrated, With over three hundred photographic studies taken by the author across the two volumes. Shelf wear, crease to Volume 1 spine, split to volume 2 spine, previous owners signature front end papers, contents clean. (from the introduction) Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" This is a fine and early text and survey of the fauna of the African continent.
    Price £50.00
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