Africa.- Blackburne-Maze (C.I.) Journals of My African Travels, first

Africa.- Blackburne-Maze (C.I.) Journals of My African Travels, first edition, 69 mounted silver-gelatin photographs (including frontispiece), half-title, occasional light scattered foxing, ink signature of J. Norrington o front pastedown, original gilt decorated cloth gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, [not in Czech], 8vo, Maidstone, W.E. Thorpe & Son, 1913. *** A privately printed account with original photographs of an epic big-game tour across Africa. Blackburne-Maze travelled along the Nile starting at Cairo, through Egypt, the Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, ending at Mombassa. They hunted oryx, eland, impala and rhinoceros near the Makindu River, then crossed the Ewaso Ng'iro in search of zebra, lion, buffalo and gazelle.

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