On Safari: Big-Game Hunting In British East Africa With Studies In Bird-Life (1908 First Edition)

A prolific sporting author, Chapman combined fluid writing style with his exciting experiences hunting in British East Africa. He followed the Uganda Railway, with hunting excursions toward Lake Elementeita and also westward to the Enderit River and along Lake Nakuru. On a 1904 hunt, Chapman describes his trek across the Athi Plains. There are plentiful hunting experiences, including lion, waterbuck, rhino, elephant, gazelle, eland, kudu, and buffalo. The illustrations are plentiful and come from photographs and the talented pen of Edmund Caldwell.' Peter Czech - An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950 page 35.

Hardcover. English. Edward Arnold, London. 1908, 1st edition. xvi, 340 pp with 4 pages of publishers advertisements, frontispiece, 35 plates, numerous text illustrations including maps. Rebacked with the original upper cover and most of spine on black cloth with gilt title on spine and upper cover and elephant vignette on upper cover. With new end papers, and some light foxing here and there. Book No: 2503335