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Adventures begins in Kenya, John Pollard - Have you ever shared your lunch with an eland, or your armchair with a snake ? Or hunted with cheetahs, or been charged by rhino ? These are only a few of the adventures which befell the author while in quest of the golden peregrine. The quest itself was exciting enought. The lammergeyer, emblem of Jenghiz Khan and lordliest of the Old World raptores is solwly becoming extinct. It has disappeared from the Alps within recent memory, and now survives only among the wilder mountains in Europe and Asia. In Africa it is rarer still, but John Pollard had heard a rumour that it had been seen on Mount Kenya. He went to find out for himself, and was assisted by that remarkable hunter and naturalist Raymond Hook, who lives on a farm like Whipsnade Zoo. Hook's whimsical flights of fancy are given full scope, and much of the dialogue is amusing in the extreme. On Mount Keyna, Pollard found the lammergeyer at last, "diving through the mist like a gigantic peregrine wrought of burnished gold. But this is not merely a book about a bird. The author is a mountaineer as well as a naturalist, and there are many thrilling descriptions of climbs on the great African peaks. Also he was not alone in his quest. A handsome prince and a ravishing princess were likewise in search of the vulture-eagle, whose allure could prove as irresistible as the mountains themselves. editions Robert Hale Limited, London, 1957 - #animaux sauvages, #faune africaine, #vautours, #gypaète, #Mount Kenya, #Kenya, #chasseur en Afrique, #brousse africaine, #livre animalier, #savane africaine, #nature sauvage, #nature africaine, #récit animalier, #histoires d'animaux.
Adventures begins in Kenya, John Pollard -
Have you ever shared your lunch with an eland, or your armchair with a snake ? Or hunted with cheetahs, or been charged by rhino ? These are only a few of the adventures which befell the author while in quest of the golden peregrine.
The quest itself was exciting enought. The lammergeyer, emblem of Jenghiz Khan and lordliest of the Old World raptores is solwly becoming extinct. It has disappeared from the Alps within recent memory, and now survives only among the wilder mountains in Europe and Asia. In Africa it is rarer still, but John Pollard had heard a rumour that it had been seen on Mount Kenya. He went to find out for himself, and was assisted by that remarkable hunter and naturalist Raymond Hook, who lives on a farm like Whipsnade Zoo. Hook's whimsical flights of fancy are given full scope, and much of the dialogue is amusing in the extreme.
On Mount Keyna, Pollard found the lammergeyer at last, "diving through the mist like a gigantic peregrine wrought of burnished gold. But this is not merely a book about a bird. The author is a mountaineer as well as a naturalist, and there are many thrilling descriptions of climbs on the great African peaks.
Also he was not alone in his quest. A handsome prince and a ravishing princess were likewise in search of the vulture-eagle, whose allure could prove as irresistible as the mountains themselves.
editions Robert Hale Limited, London, 1957 - #animaux sauvages, #faune africaine, #vautours, #gypaète, #Mount Kenya, #Kenya, #chasseur en Afrique, #brousse africaine, #livre animalier, #savane africaine, #nature sauvage, #nature africaine, #récit animalier, #histoires d'animaux.
Description : livre relié, couverture cartonnée, avec jaquette, 190 pages, format 22 cm x 15 cm bon état, usure de la jaquette, annotation manuscrite sur la page de garde.