WATTEVILLE, Vivienne de. - L'appel de l'Afrique. Séjour et méditations parmi les éléphants et les montagnes du Kenya. Préface et traduction de G. Jean-Aubry.

Paris, Payot, 1936. Half vellum (original front-wrapper preserved). With 2 maps and 10 photographic illustrations. 334 pp. Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville (1900-1957) was a British travel writer and adventurer. She is best remembered for taking charge of and continuing an expedition in the Congo and Uganda at the age of 24, when her father was killed by a lion.

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