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W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa.

JESSEN, B. H.

  • Published: 1906 , London: [printed by] Merchant Singer & Co., For Private Distribution Only,
London: [printed by] Merchant Singer & Co., For Private Distribution Only, , 1906. Big game hunting in Africa First edition. "A very scarce title due to its private printing, in this, Jessen a Norwegian, recounts four hunting trips in Africa with the McMillans of St. Louis, Missouri. The first expedition along the Blue Nile in 1902 records only a few gazelle hunts. In 1904, a second trip carried the McMillan party along the Upper Baro River of Abyssinia with hunts for hippopotamus, elephant, and lion. In addition, more elephant were bagged near Lake Tata and the River Kaia. There was hunting for a variety of plains game including giraffe and zebra throughout this expedition. The third expedition along the Blue Nile offers adventures in Abyssinia but little in the way of sport. A fourth trip made in Autumn 1905 found the party in British East Africa in the foothills of Donyo Sabuk, C. W. I Bulpett, who accompanied the Mcmillans, bagged rhinoceros, eland, and lion, while Mrs. McMillan collected her own lion" (Czech). Large octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 38 plates and numerous illustrations to the text, large folding coloured map in end-pocket. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine and front board. Spine and rear cover sunned, a few marks to front cover, light repair to front hinge, light foxing to edges of book block, still very good. Czech, p.84.

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