Travel And Adventure In South-East Africa: Being The Narrative Of The Last Eleven Years Spent By The Author On The Zambesi And Its Tributaries

Travel And Adventure In South-East Africa: Being The Narrative Of The Last Eleven Years Spent By The Author On The Zambesi And Its Tributaries
Frederick Courteney Selous (Author)

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Stories from many years of hunting Safaris and life-changing, personal adventure in Southeast Africa.

From the Author's Preface:

"In the following pages I have written the story of the last eleven years of my travels in the interior of South Africa. During the first six years of that period... I was principally engaged in collecting specimens of the magnificent fauna which once abounded throughout the land, but many forms of which are day by day becoming scarcer, whilst some, alas! are already verging upon extinction. My occupation naturally led me into parts of the country where game was still plentiful, and as in South Africa wherever there is game there are lions too, I now and then encountered some of these animals, and had one or two interesting experiences with them, of all of which I have given some account. The first nine chapters of the book deal with the experiences of these six years; but in addition to lion stories and hunting adventures, there will be found much matter of more general interest, such as some notes upon my own personal experiences amongst the South African Boers; accounts of the two expeditions sent against the Batauwani by Lo Bengula; the devastations committed by the Matabili in Mashunaland; notes upon the Bushmen, etc.

Chapters XI., XII., and XIII. deal with accounts of journeys beyond the Zambesi to the countries of the Mashukulumbwi and Barotsi tribes. My experiences amongst the former people were eminently unpleasant at the time, but have supplied me with the materials for two chapters that may be of interest to those of my readers who appreciate tales of adventure.

...the last two [chapters]... are devoted to a narration of hunting reminiscences, some of which date back to many years ago..."
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