After Big Game in Central AfricaMacmillan, 15 sept. 1989 - 330 pages In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899. |
Table des matières
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 15 |
CHAPTER III | 28 |
CHAPTER V | 63 |
CHAPTER VI | 85 |
CHAPTER VII | 101 |
CHAPTER VIII | 120 |
CHAPTER IX | 135 |
CHAPTER XI | 197 |
CHAPTER XII | 231 |
CHAPTER XIII | 241 |
CHAPTER XIV | 262 |
APPENDIX | 281 |
PART II | 310 |
TABLES OF MEASUREMENTS | 322 |
CHAPTER X | 161 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman from August 1894 to ... Edouard Foà Affichage du livre entier - 1899 |
After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to ... Edouard Foa Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
animal ant-hill antelopes assagais Bertrand big game biltong birds blood Bluebuck body buffalo bush bushbuck camp carnivora cartridges Central Africa charge Chiromo Congo danger dead distance district dogs drink ears eland elephant elephant's expedition eyes feet female fire flesh Foà follow foot forest fulas giraffes Grandes Chasses ground habits Hartebeest head herd hippopotami horns hunter hunting hyenas inches Inyala journey Kambombe Kapoche killed koodoos Lake Nyassa leave leopard look male Manyema marabout meat morning Msiambiri natives neck night night-watch noise o'clock pass plain pool regions rhinoceros rifle river roars Rodzani sable antelope scent season seen shoot shot shoulder side skin skull solid bullets soon south pool spoor sport spot stop tail Tambarika Tchigallo thick thicket tion track tree trunk Tsessebe tusks village vultures walk wart-hog waterbuck weapon wind wounded lion yards Zambesi zebra
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Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya Edward I. Steinhart Aucun aperçu disponible - 2006 |