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Hodson, Arnold W : Trekking the Great Thirst: Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert

Africana Book Society, 1977

ISBN 0949973254

Jacket is torn and marked.Tanning.Excellent binding.The book deals mainly with the journeys and hunting expeditions of the author in the Bechuanaland Protectorate[now Botswana]in the years 1904-1910.Africana Reprint Library Volume 12 only.Facsimile reproduction of the 1912.[R.K]. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Poor

Hodson, Arnold W : Trekking the Great Thirst. Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert

(Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1987)

Text facsimile of the 1912 Unwin first edition, with a new introduction by Professor R. S. Roberts. 8vo; original brown boards, with spine lettered in gilt, and gilt elephant device to upper board; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 359, incl. index; plates throughout; four folding maps, including large folding map at end. (Czech, pp. 76-7 [1st edition]) Dustwrapper a little rubbed and sunned on spine panel, with short tear to top edge of upper panel; trace of rippling to top edge of front free endpaper and prelims. Very good condition. "Trekking the Great Thirst was first published in book form in 1912 (the edition now being reprinted) much of it having originated as contemporary articles written for sporting and other popular magazines. It deals mainly with the journeys and hunting expeditions of the author in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) in the years 1904-1910. His duties as policeman and magistrate took him into the most remote parts of the territory, one of his missions being to the Damaraland frontier at the time of the Herero and Nama Wars in German South-West Africa. He was also much involved in trying to reconcile conflicts between tribal chiefs. His several political missions, on which his narrative turns, cover a most important period in the history of Botswana, and his account gives an informative picture of the character of the people, their mode of living, and the harshness of the waterless regions with their great trackless distances."

Hodson, Arnold W : Trekking the Great Thirst. Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert

(Johannesburg: Africana Book Society, 1977) 0949973254

ISBN 0949973254

Volume 12 in the Africana Reprint Library. Text facsimile of the 1912 Unwin first edition, with a new introduction by Professor R. S. Roberts. 8vo; orange-brown rexine, with silver gilt lettering to spine; upper cover with silver gilt lettering, hunter and oryx device; tinted top edge; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pictorial endpapers; pp. xvi + 359, incl. index; colour frontis. with tissue-guard; plates; four folding maps, including large folding map at end. Small trace of fishmothing to bottom edge of final index leaf. Near fine condition. "Trekking the Great Thirst was first published in book form in 1912 (the edition now being reprinted) much of it having originated as contemporary articles written for sporting and other popular magazines. It deals mainly with the journeys and hunting expeditions of the author in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) in the years 1904-1910. His duties as policeman and magistrate took him into the most remote parts of the territory, one of his missions being to the Damaraland frontier at the time of the Herero and Nama Wars in German South-West Africa. He was also much involved in trying to reconcile conflicts between tribal chiefs. His several political missions, on which his narrative turns, cover a most important period in the history of Botswana, and his account gives an informative picture of the character of the people, their mode of living, and the harshness of the waterless regions with their great trackless distances."

HODSON, Arnold W : Trekking the Great Thirst: Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert

Books of Zimbabwe, 1999

A fine unread copy in a fine sd.w.

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