Trekking The Great Thirst: Sport and Travel in the Kalahari Desert (African Hunting Reprint series, Volume 7)

Facsimile reproduction of the 1912 edition, with a new foreword. xviii, 360pp, colour plate frontispiece, numerous monochrome plate illustrations, complete with three fold-out maps/charts. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt motif and lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth gently rubbed around spine tips and joints. Text block edges lightly tanned. Previous owner's name inked onto front paste down. The fold-outs have all tanned, affected adjoining pages, else internally neat and clean. In its original dust jacket, a little rubbed on edges, and in a protected wrapper which has been taped on the interior.

First published in book form in 1912 - much of it having originated in magazines and periodicals - Trekking the Great Thirst deals mainly with the journeys and hunting expeditions of the author in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) in the years 1904-1910. Hodson, a policeman and magistrate was involved in reconciling differences between tribal chiefs and his political missions, on which his narrative turns, cover a most important period of the history of Botswana.