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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 second half of his In Wildest Africa is read aloud in English, in Alan's voice: the primeval forest, the elephant and rhinoceros hunts, the capturing of a lion at Simba Station, and the great night-photography chapters. 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 second half, complete: Schillings' Chapters VIII–XVI: In a Primeval Forest · After Elephants with Wandorobo · Rhinoceros-Hunting · The Capturing of a Lion · A Dying Race of Giants · A Vanishing Feature of the Velt · Camping out on the Velt · Night Photography under Difficulties · Photography by Day and by Night.
- 4 hours 17 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 lion at Simba Station — the capture chapter and the night-photography chapters made this book immortal; the lion on this set's covers, 'A Lion at Bay,' is Schillings' own photograph of 1907.
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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 second half — Chapters VIII–XVI — 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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