(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929).

FASCINATING ACCOUNT AND ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION. Akeley worked on this project for 17 years and it was perhaps his greatest life achievement and contribution. He participated in 5 African expeditions during his life and considered Africa his greatest passion. It was his conception and work for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History that made the exhibit of the wild life of Africa so truthfully represented in their natural habitat. The exhibit was eventually named after him in recognition of his genius and superb achievement. Item #32389

First Edition. With maps and black and white photographic illustrations interspersed throughout. 8vo, publisher s original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and pictorially decorated in black with renderings of a giraffe on the spine and a gorilla on the upper cover. Cartographic endleaves. xix, 321, including appendices and index pp. A handsome, clean, bright copy, very well preserved.