359pp., illus., map, paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 1990
Translated by Fleur Webb, introduced and indexed by Stephanie J. Alexander and Colin de B. Webb.
French naturalist Adulphe Delegorgue arrived in Port Natal in 1839. Volume I describes his brief journeys in the Cape Colony and the early part of his years of hunting and specimen-collecting in Natal and Zululand.
Includes an annotated general index and a preface by historian Colin Webb and a natural history index and portrait of Delegorgue as a scientist by zoologist Stephanie Alexander.