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Horn of the Hunter by Ruark, Robert C - 1953

Horn of the Hunter: - The Story of an African Safari

by Ruark, Robert C

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1953. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with gold decoration on cover and spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with 32 drawings by the author and 32 pages of photographs. 315 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (5.95 on front inside flap), has two small corner chips at spine corners, very slight edge wear, very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Africa. Here, in the jungles and on the endless plains, Ruark came to know the self-imposed discipline of mile after mile of man-killing treks, the forocity of the wounded buffalo, and the acid sweat of fear. The safari started in Nairobi, where the Ruarks hired Harry Selby, one of the best professional hunters in the business. With him came a group of native runners and bearers, a jepp, and a broken-down lorry. One of the best writers of our time shares his experiences on African safari, mid-twentieth century.
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  • Keywords Robert Ruark, first edition, Big Game Hunting, Africa, African Safari, Adventure, travel narratives

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La Estrella Polar: En el Mar Artico 1899-1900

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Lot of 5 books Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gréce By Jean Jacques Barthelemy (Voyage of the young Anacharsis in Greece) – In French language. Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 5. Complete work.
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The Taurus Collection: 150 Collectable Books on the Antarctic

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The Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland and an Excursion to Alaska

The Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland and an Excursion to Alaska

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Travels Through Various Provinces of The Kingdom of Naples, in 1789. Translated from the German,...
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Travels Through Various Provinces of The Kingdom of Naples, in 1789. Translated from the German, By Anthony Aufrere, Esq. Illustrated with Engravings.

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London: London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, 1795. First English Edition., 1795. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First English Language Edition. 8vo. Full calf, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Outer hinges are cracked, some wear to spine extremities and tips, very good generally. Three leaves have some damage to the lower part (pages 277 / 283 / 293), two with very slight loss of text. With 9 (of 10) plates, lacking plate II, which is a folding map of Naples. Plate VIII (seashells) is present in two copies. Overall, an internally clean and decent copy of a scarce book..
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THE POSSIBILITY OF REACHING THE NORTH POLE ASSERTED . A NEW EDITION WITH  AN APPENDIX CONTAINING...
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THE POSSIBILITY OF REACHING THE NORTH POLE ASSERTED . A NEW EDITION WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING PAPERS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AND ON A NORTHWEST PASSAGE BY COLONEL BEAUFOY

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Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari
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Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari

by Robert C. Ruark

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Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari

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HORN OF THE HUNTER

HORN OF THE HUNTER: The Story of An African Safari

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Long Beach, California: Safari Press Inc, 1987. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Robert C. Ruark. Early reprint, 1987. Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 315 pp., 32 drawings by author & 32 pages of photographs. Bound in publishers black cloth, black dust jacket. Jacket is very slightly edge worn, small tears at tips and edges. Spotting to edges, internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Robert Ruark was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.
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E-351: Doubleday & Co.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. , Garden City, New York. 1953. 315 pgs. Illustrated with 32 pages of Black and White photographs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (DJ is chipped and worn with pieces missing from the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Ruark's most sought-after book. In the early 1950s famous newspaper columnist Robert Ruark and his wife, Virginia, went to British East Africa (now Kenya and Tanzania) for a nine-week safari with their professional hunter, Harry Selby. The three of them, along with a group of native runners, a Jeep, and an old lorry, ventured into the bush for an adventure none of them soon… Read More
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the...
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal

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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More
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The Silence Of The North

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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and...
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.

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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
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by Berenstain, Stan and Jan

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9780394951317 / 039495131X
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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A Naturalist in the Guianas
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A Naturalist in the Guianas

by Andre, Eugene

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)

by William Edward David "W E D" Allen (1901-1973) editor

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2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony… Read More
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