First edition, First Impression. Octavo. Photographic frontispiece, 46 photographic plates, and 3 maps. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, lettering and pictorial decoration to front cover in black, blue, and grey. Spine slightly faded, toning to endpapers and a little foxing to contents; an excellent copy in unusually bright cloth. Clean endpapers with no inscriptions and sourced from a private collection in South Africa.
A highly readable first edition, first impression of Winston Churchill's account of his travels through British East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) in the autumn of 1907. This engaging narrative, initially serialised in the Strand Magazine, showcases Churchill's keen interest in a wide range of subjects, from big game hunting (rhino) and the challenges of sleeping sickness to the administration of colonial affairs by District Officers. As Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office, Churchill's private hunting trip evolved into a significant examination of the region. This copy is in excellent condition with unusually bright original cloth, featuring gilt spine lettering and attractive black, blue, and grey decoration on the front cover. A clean copy with no inscriptions, sourced from a private South African collection. Cohen A27.1; Czech, African Big Game Hunting, p. 37; Woods, Artillery of Words.
