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  • On the Gorilla Trail

    Mary Hastings Bradley

    eBook (Appleton, Jan. 17, 2015)
    "In the Congo your worst fears are never realized. Something that you didn't fear happens instead." --Mary Hastings BradleyMary Hastings Bradley records the events of a 1921 safari with her husband, Herbert Bradley, five-year-old daughter, and her friend, the renowned sculptor and taxidermist Carl Akeley. Akeley was searching for gorilla specimens for the African Hall he was in the process of redesigning for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Well into the twentieth century, this largest of primates was more a figure of myth than of natural history. The safari details successful hunting for gorillas, lions, and elephants, as well as providing details of the local country and its inhabitants.Contents: I. Off To Africa II. The West Coast Trip III. The Tourist Trail IV. In The Belgian Congo V. On Safari VI. The Summit Of Africa VII. The Gorilla Trail VIII. The Bio Gorilla Of Kaeisimbi IX. A Gorilla Band X. The Pygmies Come To Camp XI. A Night In A CraterXII. The Three-stone Kitchen XIII. The Lion That Came To Life XIV. Lion Hunting At Night XV. Elephants And Buffalo XVI. Santa In The Jungle XVII. Across Uganda XVIII. The Tomb Of King Mutesa XIX. Good-by To Africa XX. Lists And Equipment, Etc. This book published in 1922 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.

  • The Jatakas tales of India

    ellen C. Babbitt

    Hardcover (Appleton, March 15, 1940)
    Jataka Animal Stories retold by Ellen C. Babbitt.

  • The Spark

    Edith Wharton, E. C. Caswell

    (Appleton, June 6, 1924)
    None

  • Purple Pirate

    Talbot Mundy

    Hardcover (Appleton, March 15, 1935)
    None

  • Green magic: The story of the world of plants

    Julie Closson Kenly

    Hardcover (Appleton, March 15, 1930)
    None

  • We Two

    Edna (Pseud. Of Ada Ellen Bayly). Lyall

    (Appleton, Jan. 1, 1888)
    None

  • The Spark

    Edith Wharton

    (Appleton, July 6, 1924)
    None

  • David Harum: A Story of American Life

    Edward Noyes WESTCOTT

    (Appleton, Jan. 1, 1901)
    None

  • The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice, and Glaciers.

    John. Tyndall

    Hardcover (Appleton, Jan. 1, 1872)
    No Dust Jacket. Green cloth boards are edgeworn and soiled. Corners bumped. Gilt lettering on spine is faded.

  • The lords of the wild: A story of the old New York border

    Joseph A Altsheler

    Hardcover (Appleton, Sept. 3, 1919)
    None

  • the flight of the shadow

    george macdonald

    Hardcover (Appleton, July 6, 1891)
    None

  • On the gorilla trail,

    Mary Hastings Bradley

    Hardcover (Appleton, March 15, 1922)
    Pp. ix, 270, [3, ads] with 47 photo plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt gorilla on front cover and gilt lettering on spine and cover, map endpapers. This volume details Mary Hastings Bradley's expedition to the Belgian Congo with her family and Carl E. Akley to hunt large game to display for the American Museum of Natural History. The group obtained several lions and a silverback mountain gorilla which are all pictured. Included in the party was Bradley's young daughter Alice who is better known by her pen name James Tiptree, Jr. Tiptree was an award winning science fiction author whose honors include multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards.