Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn manuscript journals of big game hunting

Title Variants

Alternative: Manuscript journals of big game hunting, 1904-1914

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Cockburn, Nathaniel Clayton, 1866-1924

Cockburn, Nathaniel Clayton, 1866-1924 , Route from Baringo Boma to Adis Ababa along the east shore of Lake Rudolf
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Smithsonian Field Book Project.

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Notes

Title devised by cataloger, based on printed spine labels on boxes.

Journals are handwritten in ink on lined paper and include pasted and loose inserts of ephemera (including printed maps and government forms completed by hand, for hunting licenses etc.), correspondence, postcards, black and white photographs, sketches, and hand-drawn maps.

The journals were digitized as part of the Smithsonian Field Book Project.

Includes indexes.

Laid in volume 5: typescript manuscript ([23] leaves), "Copy of report by Mr. N.C. Cockburn on the 'Route from Baringo Boma to Adis Ababa along the east shore of Lake Rudolf.'"

Contents: (From binder's titles from volumes) v. 1. Around the world, Nov. 1904 to Feb. 1906 -- v. 2. East Africa, Oct. 1906 to Mar. 1907 -- v. 3. East Africa, Oct. 1907 to Mar. 1908 -- v. 4. East Africa, Nov. 1908 to Mar. 1909 -- v. 5. Lake Rudolf, Nov. 1909 to May 1910 -- v. 6. Egypt, Dec. 1910 to Mar. 1911 -- v. 7. Red Sea, Dec. 1911 to Mar. 1912 -- v. 8. Rhodesia, July 11, 1914 to Oct. 7, 1914.

Journals kept by Lincolnshire native Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn, describing his travels and big game hunting adventures primarily in east and southern Africa and India, as well as his trip around the world in 1904-1906 visiting Egypt, India, Burma, Hong Kong, China, Japan, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and other locations. | The journals, written in a rather chatty style, describe daily activities and extensive travel details including: accomodations, methods of travel by land and sea, distances covered, social interactions, animals seen and shot, weather, and his personal impressions of countries, governments, political situations, and similar topics. Cockburn includes detailed lists of items that he brought on his trips, as well as information on ships, hotels, native vocabularies, and species of game in various geographic regions.

Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn of Harmston Hall, Lincolnshire, England, presumably an heir to the Clayton & Shuttleworth engineering company, traveled extensively on safari in east and southern Africa and in the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladākh regions of India. From 1895-1904 Cockburn served as the Master of the Blankney Hounds, M.F.H. Cockburn later became a Major in the British army during World War I.

Forms part of: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries).

Subjects

1866-1924 , Africa , Big game hunting , Black-and-white photographs , Cockburn, Nathaniel Clayton, , Description and travel , Diaries , Field notes , India , Jammu and Kashmir (India) , Mammals , Memorabilia , Postcards , Red Sea , Safaris , Travel , Voyages around the world

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 898365622
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51401488