Abstract
DR. CHRISTY'S “Big Game and Pygmies,” based as it is upon almost twenty-five years' continuous experience of tropical Africa, is a most interesting and valuable book. The “external aspects of organic nature “are not merely being modified by human interference in Africa; they are there being rapidly and almost completely transformed. The value of the observations so faithfully recorded in this volume will therefore steadily increase. When at last the varied face of Africa shall have been reduced to a dead level of cultivated monotony; when all its nobler animals and plants shall have been replaced by peaceful beasts of the farm and dull vegetation of economic importance, this will be one of the books that will enable our heirs to appreciate what sacrifices we made in the names of civilisation and commerce.
Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi.
By Cuthbert Christy. Pp. xxxi + 325 + 56 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 21s. net.
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H., M. Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi. Nature 114, 420–421 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114420a0
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