CHAPMAN, Abel.

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Savage Sudan: its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird Life. First edition, first impression, of "the first natural history book about this area" (ODNB). Savage Sudan was described in the journal African Affairs as "a superb book; one to revel in". Chapman (1851-1929) was "one of the old-style dilettante landowning sportsmen, artists, and authors. While he was prepared to rough it like a frontiersman, he preferred to travel in luxury, champagne being his favourite drink in the field. His books are fluently written, perhaps too discursive and anecdotal for a modern taste, but they display his wide general knowledge and competence with sketchbook and camera" (ODNB).Chapman recounts his journey to Khartoum, then into Uganda. He "hunted gazelle in the arid regions of the Sudan, then stalked tiang, hartebeest and roan near the Sobat River. As he continued up the White Nile, he bagged waterbuck, kob, and lechwe. There are exciting encounters with buffalo, hippopotamus and elephant, the latter near the Zeraf River. Additional hunting for rhinoceros and eland took place near the Blue Nile and Dinder Rivers" (Czech).

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