The African Hunting and Travel Journals of JBS Greathead 1884-1910

Hardcover. Privately Published. 2005 1st ed - limited edition of 500 copies. ISBN: 620351292. 325 pp lavishly illustrated with bw photos and several maps.

Very good condition in navy linen, with gilt front and spine and decorative good dw.

The author was an Eastern Cape doctor, and these journals describe his hunting trips in the Eastern Cape, the Eastern Transvaal before the era of the Kruger Park, as well as trips further afield in Central and East Africa. He was a keen observer of nature and people, as well as a talented photographer. The editor, his great-grandson, has supplied copious footnotes Book No: 2500740