The Rediscovered Country by Stewart Edward White - Antique First Edition Hardcover Book - Travel, History, Hunting Safaris, Natural History

A wonderful adventure book called The Rediscovered Country by Stewart Edward White, 1915 First Edition. Edward White and his famous hunting guide Cuninghame discover when they visited the last remaining area of Africa that had never been hunted by white men as of 1913? How did he survive being attacked by four lions at one time? In 1915, Stewart Edward White published a narrative of his hunting adventures in the unknown portion of German East Africa in his book titled "The Rediscovered Country." It is this book of 250 pages that has been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader. The book is made up of the diary kept by Mr. White on his hunting trip taken in company with Mr. R. J. Cuninghame into an unknown region in German East Africa. This region lying in the northeastern corner of the German protectorate was shut in on all sides by natural barriers and had remained unexplored except for a German military reconnaissance a number of years prior. "As far as we could find out," says the author, "no sportsman or traveler had ever traversed this territory. If not its discoverers, we were at least its rediscoverers." Mr. White predicted that this region would supplant British East Africa as the world's greatest big game field. Mr. White was an experienced traveler and hunter-naturalist, and his delight in this undiscovered hunting field will be shared by all big-game shooters. Here were found lion, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, giraffe, buffalo and zebra, besides greater kudu, eland, impala, and many other species of antelope and other game. In places thousands of animals were seen at one time. The author records his adventures vivaciously. Mr. White is an American. The encounter with four lions makes a thrilling story, but the best yarn in the book is that of the hunt after elephant in the Kenia forest on the way home.

Size:
8¾ x 5¾ inches
358 pages and Map
Published by Doubleday, Page, & Co -- 1915 -- First Edition

This book is in very good condition for it's age. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean and unmarked but have yellowing from age. There is the usual shelf wear and bending at the corners for a book of this age. On the inside flyleaf is signatures of previous owners and a book plate. This book is 109 years old.

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