Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony

Subtitle: With a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of the antelopes and larger game. Contents: 1. A Cape cart journey, 2. Across Camdeboo to Naroekas Poort, 3. Klipspringer shooting, 4. Life on a mountain farm, 5. The Zebra in Cape Colony, 6. A race with a Kaffir, 7. Vaal Rhebok shooting, 8. A sporting saunter, 9. Birds of prey in Cape Colony, 10. An unlucky day, 11. A secret of the Orange River, 12. The fall of the elephant, 13. Springbok shooting, 14. A Karroo farm, 15. A morning ambuscade on Witteberg, 16. The present distribution of the antelopes and larger game in the Colony, 17. The game birds of Cape Colony, 18. The Boer of to-day, 19. The rise and fall of Upingtonia, 20. The legend of Jan Prinsloo's kloof, 21. The true Unicorn, 22. The extinction of the true Quagga, 23. The future of the Cape Colony.

Hardcover. English. Longmans, Green and Co, London. 1889 First Edition. xiii + 435pp, with 11 illustrations (frontis & 5 other plates missing). Rebound in half-leather with new end papers, internally foxed throughout. Hard to find book. Book No: 2503338