The Mammoth and Mammoth-Hunting in North-East Siberia

FIRST EDITION, illustrated frontispiece, 23 photographic plates, 4 text illustrations, 1 folding map, booksellers plate to back pastedown (Edgar H. Wells & Co.), publishers red cloth, boards blind ruled, spine gilt with title and mammoth portrait, 8vo, London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1926

The author’s mammoth hunting in North East Siberia.

“The life and work of obscure British traveler, journalist, author, and natural historian George Bassett Digby (1888-1962) provides insights into the construction of imaginative geographies of foreign lands for a popular readership in early 20th century Britain. Digby was one of many who collected natural specimens and cultural artifacts for museums and narrated the exotic and the everyday in books, newspapers and periodicals. His early life highlights the intertwined nature of commerce and scientific knowledge in the Siberian mammoth ivory trade before the First World War.” – (Mammoth and wars, travel and home, Susan Ann Digby)

Important reference work.