In Brightest Africa (Memorial Edition) by Carl E. Akeley - 1923

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1923 Garden City Publishing Company, Garden City, NY. 1923. Hardcover. Memorial Edition. A Star Series Book by Garden City Publishing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the FFFP in pencil Book Condition: Good +; light shelf wear to head, tail, and tips; light smudges to boards; light dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Fair +; DJ is intact but with considerable archival tape repairs to tears and chipping; small pieces missing at head, tail, and tips; edge folds. Green cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on spine. Tinted text block top. 267 pp 8vo. This is the story of explorer, scientist, taxidermist, inventor, naturalist, big game hunter and sculptor Carl Akeley. He writes of many stories of encounters with wild animals in Africa but was also the man who brought the life and habits of the gorilla into scientific perspective. He also conceived the great Roosevelt Memorial Hall in the Museum of Natural History. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket with a rare DJ.