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CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.

My African Journey.

My African Journey.

Stock Code 120032

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908

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'Churchill crossed British East Africa via the Uganda Railroad, reaching Kampala and beginning his safari. At Simba Station, oryx and rhinoceros were hunted. After arriving at Murchison Falls, he bagged a white rhino. His party continued along the Nile where hippopotamus, waterbuck, reedbuck, and roan were collected, with Colonel Wilson of the hunting party bagging an elephant.' - Czech.

First edition; 8vo (195 x 135 mm); 16 pages ads at end, frontispiece, 60 illustrations on 46 plates, 3 maps, occasional light marginal spotting, discreet previous owners stamp to pastedown; publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, some very light soiling to boards, spine faded and bumped at extremities (as usual) but otherwise a bright and firm copy; xiii, 226 pp.

Woods A12; Czech p37.

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