IN AFRICAN GAME TRACKS: WANDERINGS WITH A RIFLE THROUGH EASTERN AFRICA. By Frank Lavallin Puxley.

(1929) 1993 new facsimile reprint. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Ppii,320. B/w photographs, decorative end-papers. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 750 copies, signed and numbered by the publisher, Ellen Enzler Herring.

This is a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Puxley's fascinating memoir of Africa at the close of the nineteenth century. Chapters include: Early days in Matabililand; Service in the Boer War; Among whales; Mozambique, lions and eland; Nyasaland and eland; Bua, Livaletsi and hippo; Nyasaland and buffalo; White and black; T.T. insects and the Ruaha; The Mahenge district and giraffe; Crocodiles and Shaitan the elephant; The Kilombero; Back to Kilossa; Towards Uganda - the Semiliki Valley; Uganda and the lakes: Journey's end.