Author: Du Chaillu, Paul
Title: The Country of the Dwarfs
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5" x 7.5"), green gilt-stamped pictorial cloth with elaborately gilt-decorated spine with flamingo and snake motif. 314pp with additional 6p. publisher's catalogue of "Interesting Books for the Young". Twenty-five woodcut illustrations. Moderate wear to corners, head and tail. Original owner's embossed stamp and two inscriptions on the front free-endpaper. Du Chaillu was an anthropologist and zoologist who in the 1860s confirmed the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people. His interest in Africa came when, as a youth, he accompanied his father on a business trip to Africa where he was educated and cultivated his interests in the natural history and peoples of Africa and their languages. Good or bettter.

Keywords: Exploration; African Exploration; Gorillas; Leopards; African Fauna; Pygmy Africa


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