Abel Chapman
Savage Sudan: Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
Savage Sudan: Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
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A sweeping, richly illustrated journey through the Nile, Kordofan, the Sudd, Khartoum, the Red Sea Hills and Sudan’s remarkable wildlife.
First published in 1921, Abel Chapman’s Savage Sudan combines travel narrative, natural history and field observation. Across thirty-one chapters, Chapman records landscapes, bird-life and animals ranging from roan antelope, waterbuck and buffalo to hippopotamus, ostrich and the wildlife of the Red Sea coast.
This Nile Book Store edition is a restored, reflowable EPUB with a working chapter menu and more than 250 original illustrations, maps, diagrams and photographic elements retained from the historical edition. Printed folios and running heads have been removed for cleaner reading. The gallery includes genuine pages and illustrations from the book.
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- Illustrated, reflowable EPUB
- Thirty-one navigable chapters plus index
- More than 250 restored original visual elements
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The Sudan comprises one-fifth of the African Continent. Leaving exact measurements to the textbooks, its area approximates to a million square miles—and, of that million, only a small part was then cultivated.
A second outstanding character lies in the fact that the Sudan is divided physically and geologically into two distinct and approximately equal halves. The northern half is desert; the southern, largely alluvial plains.
To the hunter-naturalist the facts set forth convey a forceful appeal; for to him they imply the survival of a terrestrial paradise. As a hunting-field, Sudan stands among the foremost of those still extant, while for the study of bird-life the basin of the Upper Nile forms a focal point hardly to be excelled.
Historical note: The title and text retain colonial-era language and attitudes, including descriptions of Sudanese peoples and historical hunting. The work is presented unabridged as a historical document, not as a modern account of Sudan or its communities.
Public-domain text and illustrations. Source edition: Gurney and Jackson, 1921; source record verified through the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive. Restored digital edition prepared by Nile Book Store.
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