Buy this book on-line Anderson, Andrew A : Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon(Cape Town: Struik, 1974) 0869770454 ISBN 0869770454
Number 896 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. This is the forty-eighth volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Text facsimile of the Chapman and Hall edition of 1888. 8vo; original red rexine with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt publisher's device to upper board; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (iv) + xii + (ii) + 427, incl. index; folding map; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly sunned on spine panel; merest trace of foxing to rear endpaper. Near fine condition. "The author traveled through Griqualand, Namaqualand, Damaraland, and Ovampoland, commenting on the state of the countryside and native populations, particularly during his journeys in the mid-1860s. There are numerous sporting encounters with lion, leopard, giraffe and buffalo as well as the usual hunts for plains antelope for the pot. Anderson almost died of thirst while crossing the Kalahari Desert." - Kenneth Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Anderson, Andrew A : Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, livres rares, used books, fine bindings and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |