Land of the Silver Mist

222pp.  In green-cloth covered boards with black lettering front and spine.  Maps on endpapers.   8vo.  Boards are worn and marked, rubbed on edges and joints, and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Upper text block edge dust darkened. Endpapers a little toned in places, and a crease at the base of pp 219-20, else internally neat and clean.  The author's account of his various treks and exploration of Southern Africa in the period before the second world war.  Having written the book for the most part during the second world war, in September 1945 Klein boarded a plane in Cairo to return home to Pretoria, taking his manuscript with him.  The plane crashed in flames in the bush of Northern  Rhodesia about 20 miles from Broken Hill.  Fourteen passengers perished but Klein staggered out of the burning wreck - but his manuscript was lost.  It took him five years to rewrite the stories gathered during his African adventures.