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A Game Ranger’s Notebook – Paul Smiles’s portraits of African animals from the buffalo and lion to the oryx and python, drawn from his years as a game ranger. Illustrated with drawings by Neave Parker, F.R.S.A., F.Z.S. This is the 1961 Blackie hardcover, very good in a very good pictorial dust jacket in a protective sleeve. There is some damage to the jacket spine and light foxing inside.
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A Game Ranger’s Notebook by Paul Smiles was published by Blackie & Son of London and Glasgow in 1961. The drawings are by the noted wildlife artist Neave Parker, F.R.S.A., F.Z.S.
Smiles worked as a game ranger in Africa and also wrote Land of the Black Buffalo about his life in the field. Here he draws on that experience to describe the animals he came to know.
A Game Ranger’s Notebook is arranged as a series of short chapters, each devoted to one species. They include the buffalo, ostrich, lion, zebra, dikdik, hyena, vulture, eland, leopard, sable, python, hippo and oryx, among others. Each animal is brought to life with the ranger’s own observations and Neave Parker’s fine line drawings.
The pictorial dust jacket is also Parker’s work, with a leopard watching two gazelles on the front and zebras at a waterhole beneath Kilimanjaro on the back.
A Game Ranger’s Notebook will appeal to collectors of African wildlife and game ranger books, admirers of Neave Parker’s illustration, and readers who enjoy first-hand accounts of the bush.
Condition – Very Good
This copy of A Game Ranger’s Notebook is a hardcover in marbled boards with gilt titling to the spine, and is in very good condition. Internally there is light page discolouration and some foxing. The dust jacket is very good, with some damage to the spine, and a bookseller’s price sticker on the rear panel. It is now protected in a clear plastic sleeve.
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