The African Adventure: Four Hundred Years of Exploration in the 'Dangerous Continent'.
by Severin, Timothy
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
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About This Item
NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First U.S. Edition. Quarto, red cloth covered boards. 288pp. including index. Generously illustrated throughout with 45 color and 100 black and white reproductions of paintings and drawings, and four maps (one double page). A comprehensive and entertaining survey of the exploration of Africa from its earliest days to the heyday of Livingstone, Burton et al. A very tight, fresh and unblemished volume in a crisp sharp dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..
Synopsis
African Adventure is a 1963 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. On Safari in Uganda, Hal and Roger manage to capture a varied collection of African animals including hippo, hyena, cape buffalo, and leopard. But their efforts are threatened by the antics of fraudulent White Hunter "Colonel" Benjamin Bigg, and by a member of the Leopard Society who is out to kill them.
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
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- 02774
- Title
- The African Adventure: Four Hundred Years of Exploration in the 'Dangerous Continent'.
- Author
- Severin, Timothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- F
- Publisher
- NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1973.
- Keywords
- AFRICA, AFRICAN, SEVERIN, HISTORY, BOER, SOUTH EAST PRESTER JOHN, JOSEPH BANKS, SPEKE, RICHARD BURTON, LIVINGSTONE, BARBARY, CONGO, GUINEA, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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