Africa.- Hamilton (Lady Grizel) A Sportsman's Paradise, typescript, 40 f. typed on recto only, faint spotting to endpapers, bookplate of the Master of Belhaven & Stenton, contemporary blue calf, g.e., 5 raised spine bands, lightly sunned spine, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 8vo, [1907].
⁂ An unpublished memoir of big game hunting in British East Africa, by Lady Grizel Hamilton, née Cochrane (1880-1976), describing both safari and hunting during this period.
"While things were being got ready, my husband did a little shoot himself on the Athi plains ... he shot eight or nine different species, including a lioness. He was fortunate enough to secure the cubs, which were brought back to Nairobi. They were delightful little beasts, but not an unqualified success as pets. One ate my foot ..."
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