This anonymous compilation opens with Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming’s own accounts of hunting lions, rhinoceroses, buffalo and snakes near the Limpopo, then crosses the Atlantic to tales of encounters with Native Americans on the frontier. It was a book for young readers who craved danger, and its picture of Africans and Indians is that of the mid-nineteenth century.
Period adventure for readers interested in Victorian hunting lore and the stories it told about the world. Download the free EPUB.