Beating About The Bush - David Read

Beating About The Bush - David Read

'Beating About The Bush' is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 'Barefoot Over The Serengeti', the tale of a young boy's life with the Masai, on the predator-rich plains of, what is now, the most famous Game Park on Earth.

This book charts the life of David Read from the period of 1936 to 1952 in the colony of Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania), as he comes to grips with his first schooling, his move to the Lupa Goldfields and the onset of adult life. Caught up in the War, he marches his regiment of Masai and Samburu warriors from Eritrea to Kenya before leading them via Madagascar to the jungles of India and Burma.

After demobilisation he becomes a veterinary officer, and it is here that his childhood experience comes into its own, as he roams the African bush, gazetting East Africa's game parks, investigating ritual tribal murder and learning about the reclusive hunter-gatherer Ndorobo people.

Beating About The Bush recounts this extraordinary life with honesty and charm, offering a final, privileged glimpse of a vanished world of glamour-free colonialism, ethnic diversity and remote, bush adventure.

Condition: Good
Format: Medium softcover
Published: 2000 (David Read)
Pages: 283
ISBN: 9987892035