Author: Edouard Foa
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312032746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899.
After Big Game in Central Africa
Author: Edouard Foa
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312032746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312032746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899.
Big Game Hunting and Collecting In East Africa, 1903-1926
Author: Kalman Kittenberger
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312032944
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
An intrepid, humorous Hungarian hunter-collector, Kalman Kittenberger offers one of the most heartstopping, charming, and funny accounts of adventure in the Kenya Colony ever penned--a diamond of reality in a field full of sensationalist writing. Illustrated.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312032944
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
An intrepid, humorous Hungarian hunter-collector, Kalman Kittenberger offers one of the most heartstopping, charming, and funny accounts of adventure in the Kenya Colony ever penned--a diamond of reality in a field full of sensationalist writing. Illustrated.
Records of Big Game with Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights, and Horn & Tusk Measurements
Author: Rowland Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Big Game Hunting in Asia, Africa, and Elsewhere
Author: Jacques Vettier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882458028
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882458028
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Hunting Big Game with Dogs in Africa
Author: Er Myron Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa
Author: John Kingsley-Heath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The story of the author's life as a professional hunter and conservationist in East Africa. He recounts many of his greatest hunts, biggest trophies, narrowest escapes and liveliest campfire tales.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The story of the author's life as a professional hunter and conservationist in East Africa. He recounts many of his greatest hunts, biggest trophies, narrowest escapes and liveliest campfire tales.
Green Hills of Africa
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Green Hills of Africa is a work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Much of the narrative describes Hemingway's adventures hunting in East Africa, interspersed with ruminations about literature and authors. Generally the East African landscape Hemingway describes is in the region of Lake Manyara in Tanzania.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Green Hills of Africa is a work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Much of the narrative describes Hemingway's adventures hunting in East Africa, interspersed with ruminations about literature and authors. Generally the East African landscape Hemingway describes is in the region of Lake Manyara in Tanzania.
Big Game Hunting in North-eastern Rhodesia
Author: Owen Letcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
African Game Trails
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, British East
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
An account of Theodore Roosevelt's 1909–10 African expedition.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, British East
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
An account of Theodore Roosevelt's 1909–10 African expedition.
The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America
Author: Jack O'Connor
Publisher: New York : Outdoor Life
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Outdoor Life
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description