On safari

On safari, Big Game Hunting in British East Africa
by Abel Chapman (1851-1929)

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Edward Arnold, London 1908

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From 1852

South Africa when the world was young-that is, when we were young-represented to those who had inherited an adventurous spirit, and in whose breast a love of the wild was innate, something that approached the acme of terrestrial joys. Thereaway, our earlier lessons had taught that, co-existent with the humdrum monotony of a work-a-day world, there yet survived a vast continent still absolutely unknown and unsubdued by man, and across whose vacant space there sprawled, inscribed in burning letters on the map, that vocal word, "Unexplored."
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