Author: Jeannel, R.
Title: Hautes montagnes d'Afrique, vers les neiges éternelles sous l'équateur
Description: Editions du Museum 1950 [4], 253, 44 b/w plates, 43 text figs. . HB. 4to, cloth, gilt title to spine. Vg. From the library of Prof. Jim Green (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, University of London, with his name to endpaper.. Avec un appendice sur les montagnes du Choa et du Chillalo, par Hugh Scott. Publications du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Supplément No 1. Text French. A record of the observations of René Jeannel (1879-1965) director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris from 1945 to 1951, of the snow covered mountains in Africa including, Ruwenzori Mountains (Uganda), Virunga (Congo), Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mt Meru (Kenya), Aberdare Range (Kenya), Mount Elgon (on the border of Uganda and Kenya) and the heights in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Includes Jeannel’s photographs and those of the French entomologist Charles A. Alluaud (1861-1949). Chapters on the flora and flora of these mountainous areas..

Keywords: Africa; Ethiopia; Ethnography; Fauna; Flora; Mountains


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