La Vie au désert: Cinq ans de chasse dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique méridionale par Gordon Cumming
Five years of a hunter's life in the far interior of South Africa
voyage/travel, pub:1860
From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: A translation of R. Gordon-Cumming's "Lion Hunter in South Africa," to which Dumas supplies one of his amusing chats as a preface. Three-fourths of this "Causerie" had previously been issued in "Le Monte-Cristo" for May 7th, 1857.
Original edition : Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 2 vols., 1860.
Fills two volumes in the standard Calmann-Lévy edition, and one in their "Musée Littéraire."
Is in Vol. XXII. of Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré."