A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA: A NARRATIVE OF A NINE MONTHS' JOURNEY FROM THE PLAINS OF THE HAWASH TO THE SNOWS OF SIMIEN.... By P.H.G. Powell-Cotton, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.

1902 1st edition. Large 8vo (164 x 233mm). Ppxxiv,531,12[ads]. B/w photographs, folding colour map in wallet in rear paste-down, zebra-pattern end-papers. Gilt titles to red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"...with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives". "When I started from England in the month of October 1899, nothing was further from my thoughts than writing a book on Abyssinia. I intended to join a sporting expedition, whose goal was the newly discovered game country round Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie. Circumstances altered my plans, with the result that after some weeks' stay at Adis Ababa, I found myself engaged, without a single white companion, on a journey through regions which no European foot had trod for generations. Having kept a careful record of the sport I enjoyed and the chief incidents of my wanderings, and brought back numerous photographs of the scenery, people, and game of the little-known districts through which I passed, I have thought that the narrative of my experiences, ...might be sufficiently interesting to be published". Interesting, detailed and instructive.