Lot Details
Lot 375
TRAIN, RUSS and AILEEN Back to Africa 1958.
[Washington: privately printed, 1959]. Original pictorial wrappers. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches; 119 single-sided typescript pp.; full-page map, vignette title page, small illustration of a bongo on final text leaf. Wrappers sunned and a bit edgeworn with one or two pale stains, foxing to first few leaves.
A follow-up to WWF founder Russell Train's narrative of his first safari in Africa, this details Russ and Aileen's second safari, this time to the Lake Tana region and the forests near Mount Kenya. The introduction here emphasizes the importance of conservation efforts that would define the Trains' life work: "On our second safari in the summer of 1958, it was obvious to us that the game situation had deteriorated seriously during the two years that had elapsed since our earlier visit. Areas which had abounded in wildlife were now devoid of game. Certain species, lion and rhino in particular, were in critical circumstances...In East Africa, the Kenya Wild Life Society is doing a splendid job against very discouraging odds, and here in the United States the New York Zoological Society recently set up an African Wild Life Fund to help fight the conservation battle." Scarce, with no auction records traced and only four institutional copies listed in WorldCat. Czech, Africa, p. 286.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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