TREE TOPS

JIM CORBETT

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

LORD HAILEY

Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1955

First edition. 
Jim Corbett, the famous big game hunter and conservationist, spent the closing years of his life in Kenya, and this was his final book completed shortly before his death. In Tree Tops he describes the famous visit by Her Majesty the Queen (on her last day as Princess Elizabeth) and her husband during their visit to the hunting lodge which was burnt down by the Mau Mau a couple of years later.
He famously remarked: "..she climbed into a tree a Princess and came down the next day a Queen."

20 x 13 cm. xiii + 30 pp.

Very good + condition. Slight stain to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Gift inscription and previous owner's name on the front free endpaper but otherwise exceptionally clean and tidy.