Author: Johnson, Martin.
Title: Safari: A Saga of the African Blue.
Description: NY/London: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1928. 1928. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on spine & front cover. The spine & its gilt titling are faded; the covers are bumped & soiled. x & 294 pp. B&W frontispiece & B&W photographic illustrations. 1 leaf of illustrations is partially detached with the front edge somewhat roughed, else the contents are very good.

First edition.

Martin Johnson and his wife sailed from New York in December 1923 with a view to filming "more completely than it had ever been done before, a record of Africa's fast vanishing wild life.." They explored, and eventually settled in British East Africa. Very good .

Keywords: TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; SAFARI; WILD LIFE; BIG GAME; AFRICA; BRITISH EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MARTIN JOHNSON; LAKE PARADISE; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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