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This is the book's own stage: C. G. Schillings — in the frontispiece portrait of his own book, photographed by Nicola Perscheid — stands on the stage, while the first half of his In Wildest Africa is read aloud in English, in Alan's voice: the spell of the Elelescho, the coming of the flashlight photograph, and the voices of the wilderness. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- In Wildest Africa — the first half, complete: Schillings' Preface and Chapters I–VII: The Spell of the Elelescho · From the Cave-dweller's Sketch to the Flashlight Photograph · New Light on the Tragedy of Civilisation · The Survivors · Sport and Nature in Germany · The Lonely Wonder-World of the Nyíka · The Voices of the Wilderness.
- 4 hours 41 minutes of narration — Alan reads the book aloud in English, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while Schillings' portrait stands on the stage.
- The hunter who became a photographer — Schillings went out for trophies and came back preaching protection; his flashlight photographs of wild animals at night were the first of their kind ever published.
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This is the public-domain text of C. G. Schillings' In Wildest Africa (London, 1907), in Frederic Whyte's English translation, presented as a talking hologram book in the author's own words. Schillings died in 1921, more than a hundred years ago. This volume carries the book's first half — the Preface and Chapters I–VII — whole and in his own order. Every copy opens with an honest disclaimer that prints this house's one margin on its face: Schillings died in 1921, past the hundred-year line; his English translator, Frederic Whyte, died in 1941, fifteen years short of it — and the 1907 edition is public domain in the United States by its publication year. The narration is a synthesized English reading (Piper — Alan) of that text, made for this edition; the figure on the stage is Schillings' frontispiece portrait, photographed by Nicola Perscheid. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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