Hunting Journal 1852-1856 In The Zulu Kingdom And The Tsonga Regions by Struthers, Robert Briggs

Hunting Journal 1852-1856 In The Zulu Kingdom And The Tsonga Regions

Struthers, Robert Briggs

ISBN 10: 0869807889

ISBN 13: 9780869807880

Item Description: Killie Campbell Africana Library / University, Pietermaritzburg, 1991. Pictorial Wrappers. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 150 pp. Some illustrations in black and white. Fold-out map pasted to interior of rear panel. Light rubbing to lamination of wrappers.Small stain to base of text-block. The following is taken from the publisher's website : "Robert Briggs Struthers (1822-1892) was a Scotsman who emigrated to the Colony of Natal in 1849, and between 1852 and 1856 hunted on foot in the Zulu kingdom and in the regions known as Tsongaland (or Maputaland) and southern Mozambique. Thereafter he served in the Natal colonial service until his retirement in 1882. His hunting diary of the 1850's is the daily record of a small-scale workman-hunter". "In the twentieth century his accounts of daily slaughter make somewhat chilling reading, but Pat Merrett's Introduction enables today's conservation-minded reader to place Struthers firmly in the context of colonial Natal, to experience a hunter's daily life, and to understand the role of the hunter-traders in the economy and in the destruction of game". Size: Octavo. Soft Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 05567

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