Carl Akeley's Africa.

8vo, pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering and with Gorilla at center of front cover, pictorial dust jacket, illustrated (black and white plates), frontispiece portrait, xix, [1], 321 pp. Normal aging, some chipping at extremities of dust jacket; very good overall in a good or better dust jacket. Carl Than Akeley (1864-1926) was a taxidermist, naturalist and inventor was born near Clarendon, New York. Akeley would make five expeditions to Africa collecting specimens, first for the Field Museum in Chicago, and then for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1911 he proposed to Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the museum, a plan to present animal groups against painted backgrounds that would faithfully recreate the habitat which the animals lived. He had many adventures on the trips to Africa, including one where he was attacked by a leopard. Akeley died on his last expedition in his camp, near Mount Mikeno. This book is an account of Akeley's last expedition, and has a foreword by Henry Fairfield Osborn. ANB.