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WILSON, A. H., Captain.
A British Borderland. Service and Sport in Equatoria.
With an Introduction by J. Cathcart Wason, M.P.
First edition. "An officer in the King's African Rifles, Wilson mixed military activities with sport. En route to an assignment on the Nile, he bagged his first elephant. Along the Mara River he collected roan antelope, eland, and lion and hunted buffalo from a machan [platform hide]. His best chapters recount his elephant hunting adventures near Nimule on the White Nile." Wilson commanded the military escort to the Anglo-German East African Boundaries Commission in 1904, and served in the Nandi Expedition of 1905-6 alongside Meinertzhagen. An uncommon book in exceptional condition.
Octavo, original red cloth, title gilt to spine and to upper board with gilt decorative block, top edge gilt. In the dust jacket. 16 plates, folding map. Light toning, some foxing to the fore-edge, slight sunning at head and tail of the spine where the dust jacket is mildly chipped, but a very good copy in the uncommon jacket, a little rubbed, the spine sunned.
