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BLAND-SUTTON, John, Sir.
Man and Beast in eastern Ethiopia. From Observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan … With two hundred and four Engravings on Eood. London, Macmillan and Co., 1911.
8vo, pp. xii, 419, [1, blank]; with numerous illustrations in the text; very occasional light marginal foxing, but a very good copy, uncut, in original pictorial red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to upper cover; very slight wear to extremities; author’s inscription at head of title ‘Sir Milsom Rees with all good wishes’, his name on title crossed through and signed ‘John Bland Sutton’, a few manuscript corrections in the author’s hand.
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Man and Beast in eastern Ethiopia. From Observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan … With two hundred and four Engravings on Eood.
First edition, a presentation copy from the author to the Welsh surgeon Sir John Milsom Rees (1866–1952). Bland-Sutton (1855–1936) served as President of both the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons.
‘Anxious to see something of Eastern Ethiopia I made a journey, accompanied by my friend and colleague Dr. Comyns Berkeley, to the Victoria Nyanza. We started from Mombasa, and in due course reached the lake and visited its northern shore. On the return journey we went “On Safari” in the Rift Valley. Whilst writing this book I realised that some subjects discussed in it could be made clearer by a visit to that part of the Nile which courses through the torrid Sudan, especially the Sudd region around Lake No. With this object in mind I made a boat journey up the White Nile and the Bage-el-Gebel as high as Rejaf. This journey was full of interest, for the Nile Valley is a convenient highway for European birds seeking comfortable winter quarters in the forest and lake regions of the Rift Valley. In this book I describe my impressions in a series of essays. Seven of these deal with Mombasa, the Uganda Railway, the Victoria Nyanza, and Uganda; seven with the natives we met during our visit, such as the Masai, Wa-Kikuyu, Ndorobo, and Karivondo, including an account of their curious ear ornaments and modes of hair-dressing. A description of the natural features of the Rift Valley occupies ten essays, under the titles of Crater, Lakes, Lions, Crocodiles, Thorns, Horns, Antelopes, etc. Some of the extraordinary birds are described under the titles of beaks, Crests, Tails, and Wings’ (Introduction).
Czech, p. 18.