Foran william robert b 1882 (3 risultati)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1939). 1939 1st edition. Pp260. 4 Colour & 34 b/w plates & line illustrations by D. Newsome. Pictorial orange cloth. Slight wear but good-plus. An unusual book on the use of elephants and camels as pack animals. Includes chapters on llamas, yaks, water-buffalo, oxen, horses, mules and donkeys, huskies and reindeer. .…

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2007). (1981) 2007 2nd edition. 8vo (160 x 235mm). Ppxxii,312. B/w photograph plates, b/w illustrations by Bob Kuhn, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Purple boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. This is Robert Foran's account of elephant and rhino hunting in the area sandwiched between Uganda, the Sudan and the Congo in the years between 1902 and 1912, including the six-month free-for-all when Belgium ceded the territory to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Foran was one of the few poachers who saw a financial return from the area, being simultaneously wanted for poaching by the British and Belgian authorities. Although Foran wrote his account fifty years ago, it was only published posthumously in 1981, in a limited edition. This is the first widely available edition of this work. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). 1961 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp192. B/w photograph plates. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Owner's name and small stamp (J.R. Smith, P.O. Nyeri) to fep, spotting to end-papers and edges but text clean, good-plus. Large chip from spine of frayed but non price-clipped dust-wrapper. "Memories of adventures and narrow escapes from disaster when hunting the tiger in India; bear, wapiti, elk and moose in the Rocky Mountains; the mountain sheep in the Mexican Desert; and various .species in Africa". Includes poaching in the Lado Enclave. Chapters include: Shikar in India: Tiger! Tiger!; Tiger hunting de luxe; The next tiger hunt; Some other tigers; The affair of a man-eater; Drama of the Indian jungle; An elephant rodeo in the Himalayas. The Rockies and Mexico desert: Big-horn, elk, wapiti and moose; Grizzly bear; Mountain sheep in Mexico. Some African safaris: My first shooting safari; Pepo, an elephant shamba-raider; Facing elephant stampedes; Adventure with man-eating lions; African buffalo; Some buffalo encounters; Vigil at a salt-lick; Black rhinoceros; Some rhinoceros episodes; Near-tragedies with elephants; Rogue elephant tragedy. Glossary of Kiswahili names for animals. .…