The Nile Basin Leather-Bound Patterson's account of the lions'

Patterson's account of the lions' reign of terror and his own attempts to kill them is the stuff of great adventure

did but little to still the voices of the wilderness that were for ever whispering to me of far-away game-haunted mountains and forests

If you haven’t encountered those phrases before

author of Tails I Lose: Coping with Bird Dogs

was recipient of a bronze medal in the Non-Fiction category for the Southeast in the latest IPPY (Independent Publishers) Awards program

The Nile Basin Leather-Bound Patterson's account of the lions'Sir Richard F. Burton, The Nile Basin. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. iv, 195 pages. First edition in original buckram binding. Spine and corners bumped and gilt of title on spine a bit faded. Internally sound. Map. Far more obscure than the other Burton items on East Africa and the search for the Nile sources, this is in effect a bitter diatribe aimed at John Hanning Speke, and the latter portion of the book is actually a concerted attack on Speke