Hunting in Africa Bill Morkel

Hunting in Africa  

Author: Bill Morkel      

Publisher: Howard Timmins, Cape Town, South Africa  

Edition: First 1980 

ISBN: 0 86978 177 4

Language: English

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Some foxing. 

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket 

Pages: 252. Print with images 

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Africa affects our imagination like few other. The sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." Hunting in Africa is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. It re-creates the legary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck. Truly one of the last of the big game hunters of Southern Africa; the last of the mighty hunters whose experience lay in the greatest hunting ground which this world has seen since civilised man has appeared herein.

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