Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile: Some Records of the Duties and Diversions of an Officer Among Natives and Big Game during the Re-occupation of the Nilotic Province

C A Sykes; E A P Hobday

London : J. Murray, 1903

Bound in publisher's red cloth. xii, 306, [1] pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, fold out map, portrait ; 21 cm. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Shelf wear, small stain (discoloration) to edge of front cover. Front hinge cracked. "Sykes relates his military duties in Sudan along the Nile but also mixes in some exciting elements of big-game hunting. There are two chapters on stalking elephant, one on hippopotamus, and one on rhinoceros, as well as a dash of antelope hunting." Czech, page 162. Subjects:     Uganda -- Description and travel.    Hunting -- Uganda.    Africa, Eastern -- Description and travel.