London: Robert Hale. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1964). Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Some spots of foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket with small tears and chips at corners and at ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition (previously published in the US in 1962). 191 pages + 21 illustrations on 6 plate leaves. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 136mm. "The author takes us with him as he tracks lions in the bush and a herd of dangerous Cape buffalo; baits the vicious leopard; dodges the stupid rhino and barely escape an elephant stampede. We follow the difficult paths of rare gazelles and antelopes - the forest sitatunga, called the 'ghost of the forest', the dibitag, which inhabits the arid stretches of East Africa; and Nile lechwe, which lives in inaccessible swamps; and we also venture into the treacherous Sahara for the addax." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18905
Title: Hunting in Africa
Author: Hibben, Frank C
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Publisher: Robert Hale
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1964)
Keywords: Hunting Shooting Big Game Elephant Rhino Lion

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