Burnham Scouting On Two Continents

Burnham, Major Frederick Russell. Elicited and arranged by Mary N. Everett. Scouting on Two Continents. Rhodesian Reprint Library - Silver Series, Volume No 4. Bulawayo. Books of Rhodesia. Facsimile reprint of edition of 1927. New foreword and index.

1975. Hardback. 8vo. Pp.,xxiii,374. Photo portrait frontis, photo plates, drawings, etc. Publishers burgundy cloth, titled in silver on spine and on cover. Fore edge uncut. Clean throughout, and a solid binding. Light age tan to edges. Shelf rub to bottom edges of spine and boards. Book in VG condition. No D.w. Heavy item, and may require extra postage outside of the UK. ( NB.;- this book is NOT a "new format", "printed as ordered", or similar item ). We specialise in Travel, Atlases, Maps and Cartography. . . **. Business and shop Est. 1970.

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BURNHAM, Major FREDERICK RUSSEL, DSO. Elicited and Arranged By Mary Nixon Everett. SCOUTING ON TWO CONTINENTS. Introduction By Ross Seyfried. Prescott, AZ. Wolfe Publishing. 1994 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 1879356317
1879356317 Fine

pp: xxiv, 370. Thirty-one b&w contemporary photographs. Glossary. Bound in blue cloth, titled and decorated to top board and to spine in gilt. Russell was born in 1861 at Tivoli, Minnesota, then Sioux Indian territory. He began his career at 14 in the American Southwest as a scout and tracker, and fighting in both the Apache and the Cheyenne wars. After several more adventursome years he moved to Africa in 1893; there he became a scout for the British South Africa Company and fought in both of the Matabele wars. He returned to America to take part in the Klondike gold rush before returning to Africa where he scouted for the British in the Boer War. During that time he became friends with Baden-Powell who used Burnham's scouting skills to form the basis of much of the Boy Scout movement. Truly a fascinating man, of whom Rider Haggard said " In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance". Burnham died in 1947. Facsimile Reprint No Jacket as Issued Cloth, Gilt Lettering. 8vo Book; Facsimile Reprint

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Burnham, Frederick Russell: Scouting on Two Continents, 1928 New York Doubleday, Doran ; fester Einband / hard cover

Hardcover VG gouged at foredge, faded and little soiled front G

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Burnham, Major Frederick Russell: SCOUTING ON TWO CONTINENTS,

VG Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1927. 8vo, cloth, some soiling to covers, spine faded, but a tight, bright copy with illustrations.

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