About
"Matabele land and the Victoria Falls" by Frank Oates is a travel and natural history account written in the late 19th century. Compiled posthumously from a naturalist-explorer’s letters and journals, it traces an overland journey through the Transvaal and Matabeleland to the Zambesi and Victoria Falls, interweaving geography, wildlife, and encounters with local peoples. Readers can expect detailed field observations, maps from route surveys, and on-the-spot illustrations, shaped by an editor’s hand.
The opening of the book presents an editor’s preface explaining that the narrative is pieced together from field notebooks and private letters, justifying publication, noting delays, and outlining added scientific appendices (ornithology, herpetology, entomology, botany) and maps based on the traveller’s observations. A memoir then sketches Oates’s lifelong passion for birds and natural history, his interrupted Oxford career, recovery and travels in the Americas, character traits of coura
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