MILLAIS, John Guille.

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A Breath from the Veldt. First edition. "Highlighted by the author's detailed illustrations, this work represents Millais's journey toward the Limpopo River with excursions to hunt kudu, reedbuck, waterbuck, sable, and roan. Near the Nuanetsi River, he bagged buffalo and zebra. After leaving the Limpopo, he collected trophy kudu, as well as lion and leopard. [This is] a most readable and visually exciting book of African travel and big-game hunting" (Czech).Mendelssohn notes that the book "soon became very rare" and quotes from the Daily Telegraph review which described it as "A classic of the shooting world. Never before, or elsewhere, have the winged and furred creatures of the wild lived in their lithe beauty and fantastic grace as in these delicate drawings."

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