Back To Africa 1958 Train, Russ & Aileen Train Hunting (General),Hunting Africa,Travel

Salmon pictorial card cover stock, stapled binding: 4to; 119pp printed on rectos only; illustrated with title page & tail piece drawings plus 1 map. Russell Train was the 2nd administrator of the EPA under Presidents Nixon and Ford also the founder chairman emeritus of World Wildlife Fund. "A follow-up to Train's narrative of his first safari in Africa (The Train Safari 1956), this details Russ and Aileen's second safari, this time to the Lake Tana region and the forests near Mount Kenya. The introduction here emphasizes the importance of conservation efforts that would define the Trains' life work: 'On our second safari in the summer of 1958, it was obvious to us that the game situation had deteriorated seriously during the two years that had elapsed since our earlier visit. Areas which had abounded in wildlife were now devoid of game. Certain species, lion and rhino in particular, were in critical circumstances.In East Africa, the Kenya Wild Life Society is doing a splendid job against very discouraging odds, and here in the United States the New York Zoological Society recently set up an African Wild Life Fund to help fight the conservation battle." (Doyle) This copy in good only condition with the usual fading to covers, lower front corner creased, bottom corners of last two pages clipped, not affecting text o/w internally clean. Both of Train's books are exceedingly scarce with the OCLC locating only 5 copies in all.