Chapman, James 1868. Travels in the interior of South Africa, comprising fifteen years’ hunting and trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvisch Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. London, Bell and Daldy, Edward Stanford: vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-454.

Travels in the interior of South Africa, comprising fifteen years’ hunting and trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvisch Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls

Note

Location Southern Africa Subject Distribution Species African Rhinos

James Chapman (1831-1872) saw many rhinos, both black and white, during his travels across the south of the African continent from 1851to 1863. The locations are given in Rookmaaker, 2008, Encounters with the African rhinoceros, pp. 80-85. Chapman published his Travels in 2 volumes in 1868. There was a new edition by E.C. Tabler 1971, and and the page references for this edition are provided in Rookmaaker 2008.

Digital copies of the 1868 edition can be found on Biodiversity Heritage Library, Archive.org and elsewhere.

Black Rhino

Southern White Rhino

Nile Rhino

Greater One-horned Rhino

Javan Rhino

Sumatran Rhino

Fossil Rhino

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Travels in the interior of South Africa, comprising fifteen years’ hunting and trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvisch Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls