1912 Trekking in the Great Thirst: Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The first edition, first impression. 

Vanishingly scarce.

Bound in the publisher's pictorial cloth.

A fascinating travel account presenting the author's travels across the arid Kalahari Desert, including commission trips and diplomatic missions, camp life, hunting and lion-hunting.

Written by Arnold W. Hodson, a colonial administrator who served as Governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast.

Illustrated with four folding maps, a frontispiece and eighty-three reproductions of photographs throughout. Lacking one plate to p160.