(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897).

RARE FIRST EDITION OF A PRIMARY AFRICAN WORK. The work includes a good deal of material on travel and exploration in Africa and is also a very important work on  big game hunting in Eastern Africa. [The] author hunted exhaustively and saw many new species, one of which was named for him. He traveled with Lt. Von Höhnel and had the same guide as Sir Samuel Baker. [Much of his] hunting was between the Tana and Juba rivers. The work is considered one of the finest reading books on African hunting and traveling. - Ellen Enzler.
From a long line of eminent New York families, the author was a soldier, explorer, and politician who later served as U.S. Representative from New York. He was a friend of Teddy Roosevelt, who he thanks in the preface. He spent three years in Africa and became a fellow of the American Geographical Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society of Austria.
 The journey the description of which will be found in the following pages was one planned and undertaken by me in cooperation with Lieutenant von Hohnel, for the purpose of adding something to the world s knowledge of that portion of East Africa hitherto unexplored, lying between the Tana and Juba Rivers. From the first chapter. Item #21978

First American edition. Profusely illustrated throughout based on photographs taken from the author. Thick 8vo., publishers original navy buckram, with gilt hippopotamous head on the upper cover, text in gilt on the spine, t.e.g. xvi, 585 pp. index and ads. Internally a fine copy, but ex-library with the usual markings, wanting the map and the general view, the text very bright, old evidence of a minor and small water stain to the first few pages. A good copy for reading and study.