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MR. KEARTON is probably our oldest and bestknown African picture shikari. Having given us “Photographing Wild Life Across the World”, in which he recounts many ‘hairbreadth escapes’ and exciting incidents with denizens of the wild, the actions of which he tried to portray, he now presents us with a book to gladen the heart of the Nature lover, dedicated by the by to his wife, herself an author of repute. In its twenty short chapters the author has something to say about most of the animals of the African bush and many birds and insects. The best, perhaps, is his chapter on the white ant. Systematic natural history is not his strong point, but his light sketches of the doings, family life, and frolics of the larger animals, lion, elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, rhinocerus, and many more, are excellent reading, and conjure up fascinating pictures of wild life in sun-scorched bush, river, and swamp.
In the Land of the Lion.
By Cherry Kearton. Pp. 256 + 60 plates. (London: J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd., 1929.) 10s. 6d. net.
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In the Land of the Lion . Nature 125, 12 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125012c0
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