author
Guillaume Vasse
Known for vivid hunting and travel writing, this French author left behind adventurous accounts set in Mozambique and the marshlands of Normandy. His books are still remembered for their energetic storytelling and close attention to the natural world.
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Op de jacht in Mozambique De Aarde en haar Volken, 1909
by Guillaume Vasse
About the author
Guillaume Vasse was a French writer born in 1868. Available catalog records and library references connect him especially with hunting and travel literature, including Three Years' Sport in Mozambique and Cinquante ans de souvenirs de chasse.
His writing drew on firsthand experience. Sources describe him as a big-game hunter who spent roughly two years in central Mozambique between 1904 and 1907 with his wife, collecting natural-history specimens as well as material for his books.
Later readers continued to value his work for its lively, atmospheric style. The French National Library catalog describes Cinquante ans de souvenirs de chasse as one of the classic works of hunting literature, centered on waterfowl hunting in Normandy, the Somme, and the Seine estuary.