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  • Beautiful Birds

    by Edmund Selous ...
    Beautiful Birds by Edmund Selous is a richly descriptive book that takes readers on a journey through the natural world, focusing on the fascinating and colorful lives of various bird species. The book highlights the beauty and intricacy of birds, offering detailed accounts of their habits, appearances, and environments. Selous provides an in-depth exploration of both common and exotic species, ... Read more

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  • Big Game Shooting - The Lion in South Africa

    by F. C. Selous ...
    Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter and conservationist, and is most remembered for his activities in Southeast Africa. Selous explored lesser-known areas, where he recorded ethnographic notes and collected specimens. ‘Big Game Shooting’, published in 1894, is an anecdotal account that chronicles his experiences of hunting the lion in South Africa, and offers a ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, with Some Notes on Seals—and Digressions

    Enriched edition. Exploring Wildlife in the Shetlands - An Avian Adventure

    In "The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, with Some Notes on Seals'—and Digressions," Edmund Selous provides a compelling exploration of the natural world through the lens of both ornithology and personal reflection. Written in the early 20th century, Selous's narrative is characterized by a lyrical prose style that marries scientific observation with poetic ruminations. His intimate engagement with ... Read more

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  • African Nature Notes and Reminiscences

    African Nature Notes and Reminiscences are the reminiscences of the famous big game hunter Frederick Selous. The original illustrations and a table of contents is included. ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lion in South Africa (1894)

    "Selous is the most famous hunter in all Africa." -The AmericanFrederick Courteney Selous (1851 – 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character.Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell ... Read more

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  • A Historian in Gaza

    Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land's people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of one month in a place shattered by Israel's all-out war. When the historian returned to Gaza, he arrived under circumstances ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

  • Bird Watching

    by Edmund Selous ...
    I should like to explain that this work, being, with one or two insignificant exceptions, a record of my own observations only, it has not been my intention to make general statements in regard to the habits of any particular bird. In practice, however, it is often difficult to write as if one were not doing this, without its having a very clumsy effect. One cannot, for instance, always say, "I ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.

    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and ... Read more

    $9.93 CAD

  • Tales from the Savannah: Frederick Courteney Selous' African Memoirs

    African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous: Immerse yourself in the untamed beauty of Africa with "African Nature Notes and Reminiscences" by Frederick Courteney Selous. This captivating collection of observations and memories paints a vivid picture of the African landscape, its wildlife, and the adventures of a renowned big-game hunter and naturalist.Why This Book ... Read more

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  • A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (Illustrated)

    A Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa

    The Boone and Crockett Club has brought back to life Frederick Courteney Selous' epic African adventure in a meticulously remastered, high-quality paperback edition. Follow noted adventurer Selous as he spends nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa as a professional hunter beginning in 1871 at the young age of 20. In his preface he notes, “...my pages are naturally chiefly ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Crisis of Culture

    Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms

    Are we confronting a new culture--global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from ... Read more

    $27.59 CAD

  • Twenty Years in Zambesia

    "The stories of Selous' doings I have often listened to far into the night as described round my camp fire by his excited and admiring followers. Selous is not only known as a hunter, held in awe by the Matabele for his unerring aim, and beloved by the Mashonas' as a food-giver, but he is a map-maker, and the road-maker of Mashonaland, and the absolute pioneer of that part of Africa; for it was he ... Read more

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