THE END OF THE GAME
THE LAST WORD FROM PARADISE
A PICTORIAL DOCUMENTATION OF THE ORIGINS, HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF
THE BIG GAME IN AFRICA
ITS DIVERSE PEOPLES, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, RAILROADS, RESOURCES, RESERVES & INNUMERABLE RARETIES, FEATURING, WITH FULL PERSPECTIVE, A TWENTY YEAR ILLUSTRATED RECORD
OF
THE GREAT PACHYDERM (LOXODONTO AFRICANA) AND MAN
TOGETHER WITH A
STIRRING NARRATIVE OF EARLY LIFE, EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY, DARING MISSIONARY FEATS & HUNTING EPISODES IN KENYA COLONY, TANGANYIKA, UGANDA, ETHIOPIA, AND VARIOUS TERRITORIES EVEN MORE REMOTE.
INCLUDING A COMPLETE, AUTHENTIC, RICHLY DETAILED REPORT ON HUMAN PROGRESS AND ALL ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE HITHERTO UNSPOILED WILDERNESS WITH EXTRA-ORDINARY EXPLOITS OF THE LATE KAREN BLIXEN, PHILIP PERCIVAL, J.A. HUNTER, COLONEL RICHARD MEINERTZHAGEN AND EWART S. GROGAN
ENLIVENED WITH ACCOUNTS OF HUMAN DESPAIR AND ENDURANCE, ADVENTURE & ACHIEVEMENT, TRIUMPH AND DEFEAT, AMONGST LOCAL INHABITANTS, WILD BEASTS, AND ALL THE RAW FORCES OF NATURE - FULLY APPRECIATING THE GENERAL ACCELERATING COURSE OF EVENTS.
PRESENTING THE NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED, HAND WRITTEN DIARIES OF COLONEL JOHN HENRY PATTERSON, SINGLE -MINDED PURSUER OF
THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO
PUB: Cronicle books, San Francisco 1988. Number sequence 10 - 3. The revised and updated Chronicle Books edition 1988.
H/C, 280 x 250mm wide, 300+ Photoengravings and Stonetone Plates. 'Incuding genuine Portaits of all the most remarkable Travellers executed by artists of celebrity but deriving primarily from the personal collections and experiences of the concerned author & photographer.'
Book in very good condition - unread. Internally clean. Olive cloth covers; un-bumped but there is minor rubbing on corners, edges and spine, small white spots showing -mm square - does not detract. Dj in vg condition, slightly bumped on corners and spine edge. No tears but a very small closed nick at top of spine - approx 1mm.
BID INCLUDES POSTAGE AND INSURANCE P.O. TO P.O. IN RSA.
