The Wild Sports of Southern Africa;

being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn. Fifth edition. Folding map & 26 hand coloured lithograph plates. 8vo. A good copy in original illustrated cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, extremities rubbed, bookplate on front pastedown, with black cloth slipcase. xvi, 359pp. London, Henry G. Bohn,

This fifth edition is preferred to the first as it is much expanded and includes 26 coloured lithographs - all clean and bright in this copy.

The author claims in his forward to have been "taxed by the facetious with shooting madness ... a most delightful mania..." But Harris's work is more important than just an account of big game hunting. It presents a "detailed picture of the South African game fields prior to the growing pressure of civilization" (Czech). Mendelssohn I, p688. Czech, p71.

Stock Code: 196996