Scope and Contents
Topics: meals, weather, animal sightings (zebras, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, warthogs, elephants, hippos, reedbucks, buffalo, wildebeest, elands, impalas, rams, baboons, mongooses, lions, monkeys, etc.), game meat, and animals killed.
Locations: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Zululand, Transvaal, Mala Mala, Kruger, Maun, Moremi, Khwai, Savuti, Xugana, Chobe, Matusadona, Wankie, Matopos, Ghona-re-Zhou, Salisbury, Faro, Lisbon, Hluhluwe, Umfolozi, and Bana Manzi.
People: Romaine Tabler (wife).
Special events: trip to Southern Africa (sightseeing), and museum visits.
Additional material: a list of pictures, a Bulawayo Area map, a Rhodes Matopos National Park map, and a Gona-re-Zhou Game Reserve map, and a complete original list of unusual happenings on page 33 (sighting a warthog drinking in the camp, sighting a hippo with a turtle on its back, sighting a dead giraffe, and having hyenas overturn a garbage can, among others.
Dates
- Creation: 1973
Language
English
Repository Details
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