After Big Game in Central Africa
by Foà, Édouard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0312032749
- ISBN 13
- 9780312032746
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989) 0312032749. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. Translated from the French by Frederic Lees. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + xxvii + (i) + 330, incl. index; plates; some photographs in text. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; light bump to top fore-corner of upper board; some foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 98 [Adam & Charles Black edition of 1899]) "In less than four years Édouard Foà covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot - from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foà succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. His account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederic Lees' able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13338
- Title
- After Big Game in Central Africa
- Author
- Foà, Édouard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312032749
- ISBN 13
- 9780312032746
- Publisher
- (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989) 0312032749
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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