Adulphe Delegorgue's Travels in Southern Africa Tapa dura - 1987

University of Natal Press, 1990. Volumes 1,2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0869805290

(Durban: Killie Campbell Africana Library / Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1990) 0869805290. 232 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers. Translated by Fleur Webb, introduced and indexed by Stephanie J. Alexander and Colin De B. Webb; pp. xxxii + (xii) + 359, incl. index; facsimile frontis., title page, and some preliminaries from the original French edition; map; illustrations after those in the original edition. Spine, and adjacent section of upper cover sunned; crease to top fore-corner of upper cover; a little light foxing. Very good condition. "To South Africa in 1838 came Adulphe Delegorgue, a young French naturalist with a passion for information, a keen eye and a ready wit ... and a mighty elephant gun. The first volume of his famous Travels describes his brief journeyings in the Cape Colony and the early part of his several years of hunting and specimen-collecting in Natal and Zululand. Fleur Webb's lively translation allows English readers, for the first time, to… Leer más