ELTON, FREDERIC Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. London: John Murray 1879. Modern quarter leather. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; xxii, 417, 32 pp.; 3 folding maps, frontispiece, plates, publisher's advertisements. Some minor toning to maps with occasional slight edgewear and smudging, else a clean and tight copy. "The British consul to Mozambique, Elton spent considerable time fighting the slave trade in the region. He explored the region around Lake Nyassa and enjoyed considerable sport after elephant, hippopotamus, impala, eland, black rhinoceros and buffalo. His descriptions of hunting elephant with his two rifles, 'Big Henry' and 'Little Henry,' are particularly vivid. During his return to the coast, he contracted fever and died. His journals were arranged, edited and completed by his hunting companion H. B. Cotterill" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 91-92. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
ELTON, FREDERIC Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. London: John Murray 1879. Modern quarter leather. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; xxii, 417, 32 pp.; 3 folding maps, frontispiece, plates, publisher's advertisements. Some minor toning to maps with occasional slight edgewear and smudging, else a clean and tight copy. "The British consul to Mozambique, Elton spent considerable time fighting the slave trade in the region. He explored the region around Lake Nyassa and enjoyed considerable sport after elephant, hippopotamus, impala, eland, black rhinoceros and buffalo. His descriptions of hunting elephant with his two rifles, 'Big Henry' and 'Little Henry,' are particularly vivid. During his return to the coast, he contracted fever and died. His journals were arranged, edited and completed by his hunting companion H. B. Cotterill" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 91-92. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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