Travel
SYKES, Captain C[lement] A[rthur]
Service and sport on the tropical Nile some records of the duties and diversions of an officer among natives and big game during the re-occupation of the Nilotic province.
Murray, London 1903. First edition, Colonial issue, 8vo., xii, 308pp, 8 pages ads at end, frontispiece, map, 16 full-page plates, original green cloth gilt, gilt block to upper cover showing a map of the world with British colonies in red, a fine copy.
Sykes relates his military duties in the Sudan along the Nile, but also mixes in some excitinf elements of big-game hunting ... Major Hobday's illustrations are particularly nice. - Czech. Czech p162.
Price: £ 290
US Dollar Price: $ 420
Stock Number: 62900