being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn. Fourth edition. Folding map & 26 hand coloured lithograph plates. 8vo. A very good copy in half red morocco xvi, 359pp. London, Pelham Richardson, 1844.
The author claims in his forward to have been “taxed by the facetious with shooting madness … a most delightful mania…” But Harris’s work is more important than just an account of big game hunting. It presents a “detailed picture of the South African game fields prior to the growing pressure of civilization” (Czech). Mendelssohn I, p688. Czech, p71.
