A Game Ranger's Note Book
Camden, South Africa: African Collection / Briar Patch Press, 1987. Special edition produced for The African Collection. Hardcover. 409pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown leather with gilt stamped titles and decorative designs on the spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Marbled endsheets. With only very minor scratching to the gilt on the fore-edge of the text block. Near Fine. Item #68609
With illustrations from photographs by the author and Mr. Martin Johnson. Naturalist and ornithologist A. Blayney Percival arrived in East Africa from Arabia where he had been in charge of a British Museum expedition. He was first an Assistant Collector, and in 1901 was appointed Ranger of Game Reserves. Later, he was Chief Game Warden for many years (1915-1923).
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