`THE FIRST SAFARI - SEARCHING FOR FRANCOIS LEVAILLANT` BY IAN GLENN, FIRST EDITION

"THE FIRST SAFARI - SEARCHING FOR FRANCOIS LEVAILLANT" BY IAN GLENN, 2018 FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER, COMPLETE INTACT DUSTJACKET, 199 PAGES, COMPLETE INTACT DUSTJACKET, NO NAMES, INSCRIPTIONS ETC. IN FINE UNREAD CONDITION.

The First Safari tells how, for a quarter of a century, Ian Glenn searched for Francois Levaillant's notebooks and the fate of his collection and tried to solve puzzles and mysteries of Levaillant's life and times. Levaillant was the first and greatest South African birder, noted ornithologist, explorer, naturalist, zoological collector and anthropologist of the Cape. He collected thousands of specimens of birds and subsequently published the six-volume Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux dAfrique between 1799 and 1808. His contribution to ornithology in Africa was immeasurable, and some of his specimens still exist in museums in Europe. Through his travels, he also shaped a range of media genres: the hunting narrative; the safari; the anthropological field record; the illustrated and mapped first-person account of travel we associate with National Geographic stories; the colonial adventure story with a well-armed hero; the erotic exotic; the investigative report on colonial brutality.

This book is intended for would-be researchers, for people wondering why writers as various as Nicolas Chamfort, Karel Schoeman, JM Coetzee and Michel Leiris admired Levaillant, for teachers looking for a new start for South African literature and for people interested in the bush or birding who want to know why Levaillant was our greatest naturalist. The famous Kings Map that Levaillant inspired for King Louis XVI is also included in the book.

TAGS-AFRICANA, TRAVEL, EXPLORATION, HUNTING

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