SZÉCHENYI, Count Zsigmond.

Land of elephants. Big-game hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda.

London, Putnam, [1935]. 8vo (220 x 140 mm), pp. xi, [iii], 208, with a portrait-frontispiece, numerous plates and a map; original charcoal cloth; light fraying at extremities; the Hosken copy, with bookplate. First edition in English. ‘Originally published in Hungary in 1934, this translation details a Hungarian nobleman’s pursuit of elephant in the Kitui Forest and along the Tiva River in Kenya. He also hunted bongo near Mt. Kenya, kudu along the northern reaches of Lake Rudolf, leopard on the northern Guaso Nyiro, and lion on the Serengeti Plain. Széchenyi wrote other African hunting titles that still await translation’ (Czech).Czech p. 162; Hosken p. 195.

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