LAKE VICTORIA TO KHARTOUM WITH RIFLE & CAMERA

Dickinson (Captain F.A.)

Description:

With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill.

xix, 334 pages, 22 publisher’s catalogue, photographic frontispiece, 47 photographic plates, inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Original red cloth with gilt titling on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, a very good copy.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 49, ‘Dickinson provides details of where to hunt the major game of the Uganda southern Sudan region, from the highlands to the Sudd of the Nile. He served as Winston Churchill’s escort from Lake Victoria to Gondokoro and includes two chapters on elephant hunting.’

Details:

  • Publisher: John Lane the Bodley Head
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1910
  • Edition: First edition
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo. (225 x 150 mm)
  • Lot No: 277
  • Hammer Price: $551
  • Bids: 6
  • Visits: 45
  • Estimate: $400/500
  • Reserve: $300

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