African Safaris
by Anderson, G. H. ("Andy")
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1571570748
- ISBN 13
- 9781571570741
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1997) 1571570748. 4to; cloth-backed green pebbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 173; plates. Some minor foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper; earlier owner's name signed on title page. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 6 [Nairobi edition of 1946]) "One of the founders of the East Africa Professional Hunters' Association, Anderson recalls numerous elephant hunting adventures in Somaliland, the Sudan and in East Africa's Northern Frontier. There is also an interesting trek with James Sutherland in Tanganyika after elephant, and additional safaris with George Rushby. Accounts of leopard and lion hunting are also included, the latter cat mangling Anderson's leg during one attack. The author died of pneumonia just prior to publication." - Kenneth Czech .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13333
- Title
- African Safaris
- Author
- Anderson, G. H. ("Andy")
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1571570748
- ISBN 13
- 9781571570741
- Publisher
- (Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1997) 1571570748
- Place of Publication
- Long Beach, Ca
- This edition first published
- 1997
- Keywords
- East Africa. Big Game Hunters. White hunters Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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