Matabele land and the Victoria Falls (Registro nro. 118523)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Oates, Frank, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1840-1875 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Matabele land and the Victoria Falls |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-01-28 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Peter Becker, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Matabele land and the Victoria Falls" by Frank Oates is a travel and natural history account written in the late 19th century. Compiled posthumously from a naturalist-explorer’s letters and journals, it traces an overland journey through the Transvaal and Matabeleland to the Zambesi and Victoria Falls, interweaving geography, wildlife, and encounters with local peoples. Readers can expect detailed field observations, maps from route surveys, and on-the-spot illustrations, shaped by an editor’s hand.<br/><br/>The opening of the book presents an editor’s preface explaining that the narrative is pieced together from field notebooks and private letters, justifying publication, noting delays, and outlining added scientific appendices (ornithology, herpetology, entomology, botany) and maps based on the traveller’s observations. A memoir then sketches Oates’s lifelong passion for birds and natural history, his interrupted Oxford career, recovery and travels in the Americas, character traits of courage and gentleness, and the aims and risks of his South African expedition. The narrative proper begins with departure for Natal, outfitting at Pietermaritzburg, and a slow wagon journey via the high, treeless veldt (cold nights, burned grass) to Pretoria, then into the bush-veldt along the Crocodile River, where game and birdlife abound and Boers trade farm produce. Reaching Shoshong (Bamangwato), the party meets King Sekomi amid scarcity and locust-gathering, receives practical guidance from missionaries, and pushes on through sandy, water-stressed country past the Seruli and Gokwe with encounters among Bushmen hunters and abundant sand-grouse. After a dramatic episode in which a lion seizes an ox at the Shashe, the travellers arrive at the small Tati gold settlement; plans are set for Oates to proceed toward Lobengula’s town and, if possible, the Zambesi, while his brother turns aside for a shorter hunting excursion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Africa, Southern -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Natural history -- Africa, Southern |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Oates, C. G. |
| Fuller form of name | (Charles George), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1844-1901 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/matabelelandvict00oates">https://archive.org/details/matabelelandvict00oates</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77803">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77803</a> |
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