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Barns, T. Alexander, With An Introduction By Sir H. H. Johnston

The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo; the Region of the Snow-Crowned Volcanoes, the Pygmies, the Giant Gorilla and the Okapi

1922

162,62 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1922
Lieu d'édition
London & New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons
Auteur
Barns, T. Alexander, With An Introduction By Sir H. H. Johnston
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Africa Anthropology
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

large 8vo [25.5 x 17 cm]; xxxv, 288 pp, frontis, 107 plates from photo, folding map at end, index. original pictorial cloth, spine a little darkened, light wear at spine ends, map with tape repair on verso, very light foxing, else a very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. "I have attempted to weave into my writing something of the fascination and spell of Africa, which bred in the solitudes of open plain and primeval forest, grip the traveller from first to last" (vii). The author explored the region about Lake Kivu and between Kivu and Ruwenzori in the Congo with good description of the native peoples and nature and with some emphasis on gorillas, elephants, lions, entomology, cannibals, the volcanoes, etc. The appendix lists the new species of butterflies and moths collected by the author and his wife who accompanied him.