Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.: Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers

by John Guille Millais

This biography of the renowned big-game hunter, explorer, and naturalist Frederick Selous was written by his good friend John Guille Millais shortly after his death in 1917. It includes numerous anecdotes, passages from Selous' own books, and letters of correspondence between Selous and Millais, Selous and Theodore Roosevelt, and others. This Juniper Grove edition has been reprinted from the 1919 edition. It includes 16 full-page illustrations.

Genres: History

434 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

John Guille Millais (24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931) was a British artist, naturalist, ornithologist, gardener and travel writer who specialized in wildlife and flower portraiture.

Millais travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exact nature. .

He was a son of the artist Sir John Everett Millais and his wife Euphemia Gray.

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[Sharonh · Rating 4 out of 5]

The life story of a remarkable admirable man to whom Africa owes a lot!