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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Seventeen trips through Somáliland
Harald G. C. Swayne
545 pages~10 hr 52 min read43 chapters$4.99
Seventeen expeditions into the Horn of Africa, tracking big game and mapping unknown ground. Harald Swayne describes the nomadic life, government explorations, and a reconnaissance of the Abyssinian border. A hunter and surveyor's record of a corner of the world few outsiders had crossed. Ride out with him across the thorn and the dust.
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Inside this book
43 chapters
- 1SEVENTEEN TRIPS THROUGH SOMÁLILAND
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5CHAPTER I ETHNOLOGY
- 6CHAPTER II THE NOMADIC LIFE
- 7CHAPTER III BIG GAME SHOOTING, 1887
- 8CHAPTER IV GOVERNMENT EXPLORATIONS
- 9CHAPTER V A RECONNAISSANCE OF THE ABYSSINIAN BORDER, 1892
- 10CHAPTER VI A VISIT TO RÁS MAKUNAN OF HARAR, 1893
- 11CHAPTER VII FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABÉLEH RIVER, 1893
- 12CHAPTER VIII FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABÉLEH RIVER (continued)
- 13CHAPTER IX THREE WEEKS’ KOODOO STALKING ON GOLIS RANGE, 1893
- 14CHAPTER X SECOND JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABÉLEH RIVER, 1893
- 15CHAPTER XI NOTES ON THE WILD FAUNA OF SOMÁLILAND
- 16The Lion (Felis leo)
- 17The Elephant (Elephas africanus)
- 18The Black Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis)
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