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A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa; Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the far Interior of South Africa ... With ... Illustrations

by Frederick Courteney Selous

A Victorian hunter’s account of the South African interior

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A Victorian hunter’s account of the South African interior

Frederick Courteney Selous’s narrative records nine years spent among the game of South Africa’s far interior. Published in 1881 and accompanied by illustrations attributed to E. Whymper, the book belongs to the Victorian travel-writing tradition of personal accounts of journeys and experience. Its historical value lies in the perspective it offers on travel and hunting as described by a nineteenth-century traveler; it should be approached as a period account, not a contemporary guide to the region.

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Readers interested in Victorian travel narratives and historical accounts of Africa
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Victorian travel writingSouth African interiorHunting and wildlifeHistorical accounts of Africa

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Title: A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa; being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa ... With ... illustrations by ... E. Whymper, etc.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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British Library
Selous, Frederick Courteney; Whymper, Edward;
1881.
xvii. 455 p.; 8

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