Kenneth cecil gandar dower (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: RAF Langham library. Physical description; 70 p. : ill., front., maps ; 23 cm. Notes; "The text of this book was written by the late K. C. Gandar Dower, who also took nearly all the photographs" --p. [5]. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Africa, Italian East. Eritrea History. Eritrea Politics and government. Somalia History. 1 Kg.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 210mm). Ppx,331. B/w photographs, fold-out map of the Abedares to rear. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slightly dented and used, browning to end-papers and edges, paste-repair to frontispiece, tear and crumpled edge to folding map. Good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. An entertaining and amusing description of Gandar Dower's safari, with Raymond Hook, into Kenya's Aberdare mountain range in search of the fabled 'spotted lion'. Chapters include:- Erratic pilgrimage; This book is not. ; Try Raymond Hook; In which I am charged by a pachyderm; Talks with a pirate king; First glimpse of spotted lion land; Stock safari; Murder pretty foul; Escape; The spotted lion; In which it does not strike hook as possible; In which we grope our way tenatively; In which we are neither up nor down; In which the elephant knows best; The final fling; We win through; The God's relent; The plague is with us; Ten little nigger boys; Retreat from Moscow; Purgatory regained; Dusk in the woods; Mutiny; The highest hole in history; In which I become colour conscious; The steam-roller system; In which I do a very gallant act; "If seven angry elephants"; The spotted lions bite; I find Lake Gandar; Stalemate. Appendices include:- Notes on the spotted lion of the Aberdares by R.I. Pocock, F.R.S; Native evidence. . …

First Edition. Good copy only in gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Proveance: Bookplate of Alan Thornton Witney. Physical description: x, 331 pages, [24] leaves of plates (inc. front.): ill., map (fold.), ports. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Leopons Kenya. Lion hunting Kenya. Kenya Description and travel. 1 Kg. …