My friend shudders at my slaying a rhinoceros, but manages to eat part of an unfortunate sheep immediately afterwards. I wonder if the good lady's words ring true. She may be right, and books on sport and adventure are only for men and boys, the sterner sex. If, therefore, you, reader o' mine, should regard all forms of taking life as unwomanly, read no more...We went to Alaska to shoot, and we shot. -- from chapter 1. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Agnes Herbert (ca1880-1960) and her cousin Cecily hunted on ...
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My friend shudders at my slaying a rhinoceros, but manages to eat part of an unfortunate sheep immediately afterwards. I wonder if the good lady's words ring true. She may be right, and books on sport and adventure are only for men and boys, the sterner sex. If, therefore, you, reader o' mine, should regard all forms of taking life as unwomanly, read no more...We went to Alaska to shoot, and we shot. -- from chapter 1. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Agnes Herbert (ca1880-1960) and her cousin Cecily hunted on three continents, and Herbert wrote a book about each excursion. This, her second, traces the story of the women's Alaskan hunt, undertaken in part with two men. The foursome formed two expeditions, sometimes setting up camp together and sometimes going their own ways. The women's trophies included brown bear, walrus, caribou, Dall sheep, and moose; and Cecily bagged herself a husband, as well.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 306pp. + 16pp adverts. Original red cloth gilt, sword and shield vignette to upper cover, recased retaining original spine and with new end-papers, title pagers browned, light occasional foxing, with frontispiece and previous owner's neat signature and date (1909 on title-page, else VG. Czech, pp. 74-75. Remarkable, amusing, and often violent account of the authoress and her cousin Cecily on a hunting trip in Somaliland, where she herself is mauled by a lion and one of her native guides is killed by a rhino. "A most unconventional woman, Herbert wrote several books recounting her big-game hunting excursions. In this, she is accompanied by her cousin Cecily, bagging lesser kudu, oryx, lion, and rhino in the Ogaden region...She relates the difficulties a woman has on a trip from bathing to competition with male sportsmen. 'My cousin is a wonderful shot, and I am by no means a duffer with a rifle. As to our courage-well, we could only trust we had sufficient to carry us on through. '"-Czech. A good copy. B54.
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