Item #E26044 The Odyssey of an Animal Collector. Cecil S. Webb.

The Odyssey of an Animal Collector

London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated) . Hardcover on ochre cloth; map endpapers. xv+ 368 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in very good dust jacket with U.S. price intact. Cecil Webb was the Superintendent of the Dublin Zoo and here teels of his lifelong, worldwide travels in search of wildlife for public institutions and private collections. Catching the creatures alive and unharmed was only a part--obtaining proper food, accustoming the animals to captivity, and the hazards of return journeys had to be thought of. Webb's ravels took him to remote parts of Africa, kenya, Mozambique, the Careoons, Ecuador, India, Australia, Indo-China, among other places. Fine / very good. Item #E26044

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