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Southern Africa. A year wandering in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari Desert, and the Lake River country, Ngamiland with Notes on Colonisation, Natives, Natural History, and Sport.-Edward Stanford, 1893 London, 544pp,
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Great and Small Game of Africa (with
Lydekker) - Bryden Editor of this. An Account of the Distribution, Habits, and Natural History of the Sporting Mammals, with personal hunting Experiences Pub by Rowland Ward, London
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Kloof and Karroo: Sport, legend and natural history in Cape Colony: with a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of the antelopes and larger game. Pub. London: Longmans Green, 1889.
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of 1931 was noted as his best book, "as it is the most varied; it contains an instructive comparison between conditions and methods of foxhunting in
England, France and America." Also noted was his
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in what was at the time the fastest amateur mile on record (time 4m 24.5s) in 1875. Bryden finished second in the half-mile event at the
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Bryden went on to train as a solicitor and after leaving
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with whom he had one daughter (Olivia) and one son (Colonel Ronald A.Bryden
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was headed "Sportsman, Athlete and
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Nature and Sport in South Africa. Pub
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