AFRICAN Big Game Central Africa HUNTING Edouard FOA PETER CAPSTICK'S LIBRARY HC

Description: After Big Game in Central Africa Peter Capstick's Libraryby Edouard FOAPublished by St. Martins Press, 1989. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index, 330 pages.In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899. Loc: E10StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackAFRICAN Big Game Central Africa HUNTING Edouard FOA PETER CAPSTICK'S LIBRARY HC After Big Game in Central Africa Peter Capstick's Libraryby Edouard FOAPublished by St. Martins Press, 1989. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index, 330 pages.In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899. Loc: E10

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