The bonds of Africa : impressions of travel and sport from Cape Town to Cairo, 1902-1912
A 1913 London travel and hunting narrative by Owen Letcher, covering his journeys from Cape Town to Cairo between 1902 and 1912, held in the Smithsonian's Africana collection. The four photographs show a hunter posed with a buffalo, a man standing beside a dead antelope on open grassland, a man riding a hand trolley on a railway line, and the Sphinx with a pyramid behind it. For a designer, the pictures offer plain, documentary early-twentieth-century photography of safari scenery, equipment and colonial-era travel, with strong sun-bleached tones and flat horizons.
