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COOPER, REGINALD DAVEY Hunting and Hunted in the Belgian Congo.

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

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Lot 96
COOPER, REGINALD DAVEY Hunting and Hunted in the Belgian Congo.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. First edition. Publisher's red pictorial cloth. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; xvii, [263] pp.; folding map, frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Edges of boards sunned, extremities a bit worn, scattered foxing, booksellers ticket to front free endpaper.
"The author crossed the area north of Lake Albert, then into the Belgian Congo where he hunted elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, hartebeest, bushbuck and other game in the Lado Enclave. There are especially interesting descriptions of encounters with cannibals, tramping through elephant grass and escaping an elephant stampede" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 66-67.


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

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