Sale 19JJ03 | Lot 101

CRANWORTH, [BERTRAM FRANCIS GURDON], Lord Kenya Chronicles.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Lot 101
CRANWORTH, [BERTRAM FRANCIS GURDON], Lord Kenya Chronicles.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1939. First edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; xi, [368] pp.; frontispiece, plates, half-title. Spine lightly sunned, extremities bumped, else fine.
"While primarily a description of British East Africa, the author provides considerable information on big game, its location, methods of stalking and the game reserves. He lists rhinoceros, hippopotamus and zebra as pests, and describes a curious creature called the gu-gu, an apelike creature with but one eye and a huge spike at the end of one arm. Indeed!" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 69.


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Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT