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Selous, Frederick Courteney : Travel and Adventure in South-east Africa

Time Life, 1984

ISBN 0705415112

Banded spine with gilt titling/decoration on red background. Front cover gilt titling with red and gilt framed border. Marbled end-papers. Gilt page edging still clean and bright. Index ribbon. Pages xviii + 503 pages. Foldout map following p 477. Loose leaf inserted with a bio-pic of Selous, published as part of the Time Life series 'Classics of Exploration'. ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED WITH A TRACKING NUMBER. (KB-HK-WYY-1aSBy). Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Leather. Jacket: No Jacket

Facsimile Edition

Selous, Frederick Courteney : Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1972)

This is the twenty-fifth volume in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library Gold Series. Text facsimile of the 1893 Rowland Ward 1st edition, with a new introduction and foreword. 8vo; original pale brown boards, with black lettering and gilt warrior to spine, and gilt lions to upper board; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (xii) + xviii + 503 + (v); plates; illustrations in text; folding colour map. Slight creasing to fore-edge of a few prelims. Near fine condition. 'After a short visit to England in 1881, Selous returned to South Africa in order to make collections of specimens of some South African fauna for the British Museum and the South African Museum, &c. He was thus engaged from 1882 to 1887, and the first nine chapters of this volume are devoted to a narrative of his experiences with the Boers and the natives while engaged in his hunting expeditions, together with some account of the native wars and the raids of the Matabeles. Other chapters give particulars of journeys amongst the Mashikolumbwe and Barotsi people, the pioneer expeditions of the British South Africa Company, and the condition of Mashonaland, with notes on its previous history, the gold-mining industry in Rhodesia at this period, and reminiscences of hunting and adventure extending over a lengthy period. There are many interesting passages referring to the author's intercourse with Mr. Frank Mandy, C. J. Rhodes, Dr. Jameson, Sam Edwards, Montague Kerr, Lobengula, Khama, and many other celebrated South African personages and pioneers, and an excellent account of the Chartered Company's expedition to Mashonaland, in which Mr. Selous took prominent part, together with some details respecting the disputes with the Portuguese officials.' - Mendelssohn

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