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  • STORIES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY. by Du Chaillu, Paul.
    Du Chaillu, Paul.
    STORIES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY.

    Edition: Illustrated edition.

    New York: Harper & Brothers, nd (ca 1928) dj. Hardcover - One of five books on Central Africa by this French explorer reissued and rewritten with illustrations by Erick Berry (both full page black and white drawings and many smaller entexte pictures) for younger readers (1216 years indicated on dust jacket.) New introduction by Du Chaillu. Includes accounts of elephant hunting, village life, even cannibals, witch doctors, the barracoons in which slaves were kept before being shipped overseas and much more. 290 pp.

    Condition: Very good+ in a quite tattered and edgeworn dust jacket with tape repairs on the interior and general edgewear, but still bright and attractive and now protected by an archival cover..

    Book ID: 43436
    Keywords: cannibals, central africa, elephant hunting, exploration, Travel and Exploration, village life, witch doctors
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  • AFRICA SPEAKS: A Story of Adventure: The Chronicle of the First Trans-African Journey by Motor Truck from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic, through Central Equatorial Africa. by Hoefler, Paul L.
    Hoefler, Paul L.
    AFRICA SPEAKS: A Story of Adventure: The Chronicle of the First Trans-African Journey by Motor Truck from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic, through Central Equatorial Africa.

    Edition: First printing.

    Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1931.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page with the words 'with kind wishes.' An account of Hoefler's second African expedition in 1928, the first sucessful motor trip across the continent from the Indian Ocean to the West coast and which was the basis for the 1930 motion picture "Africa Speaks" that he produced. His travels through central Africa, including Nigeria, Lake Chad, Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, was during a time when it was still very wild, and this book describes the native peoples and wildlife - especially lions - in detail. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 143 black and white photographs. Includes a glossary of African words, list animals mentioned…

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    Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1931.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page with the words 'with kind wishes.' An account of Hoefler's second African expedition in 1928, the first sucessful motor trip across the continent from the Indian Ocean to the West coast and which was the basis for the 1930 motion picture "Africa Speaks" that he produced. His travels through central Africa, including Nigeria, Lake Chad, Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, was during a time when it was still very wild, and this book describes the native peoples and wildlife - especially lions - in detail. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 143 black and white photographs. Includes a glossary of African words, list animals mentioned in the text and index. xii, 469 pp. Map endpapers showing the route taken.

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    Condition: Very good condition overall in black cloth with gold lettering and stamped illustration of a lion's head on the front cover (prev owner's name, some shelfwear to the edges of the boards and at the ends of the spine, rubbing to the gold on the front cover.)

    Book ID: 38744
    Keywords: central africa, lions, locusts, masai, movie tie-in, Travel and Exploration
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