SIGNED: The Hunting Blackbeards of Botswana - Marsh

The Hunting Blackbeards of Botswana - Edited by Brian Marsh - 2007, first edition - Rowland Ward Publications - 248 pages - Colour photographs throughout - Large format hardcover book with dust jacket in excellent condition. R35 postage in SA.                                                                          Botswana in one of the top hunting destinations in Africa. The same size as Texas in America, it has a population of less than two million and contains two of the greatest hunting habitats on earth - the Okavango swamps and the Kalahari.

The latter, known as "The Great Thirst", is wide, open flat semi-desert famed for its, black-maned lions, its leopards and its plain game such as eland, wildebeest, hartebeest and springbok. The Okavango, on the other hand, is a vast swampland of crystal clear water interspersed with islands and papyrus beds which plays home to equally good lions, elephants, red lechwe and sitatunga, to mention but a few highly sought after animals. Ot is a unique world. To many who know it, it is the Eighth wonder of the world. This book covers the hunting lives of three generations of Blackbeards - all are professional hunters, Botswana citizens, friends of the Khama family and of the Masarwa Bushmen, their ever-present hunting companions. From their hunts as amateurs for cattle-killing lions to enthralling and dangerous hunts both fot their own account and as professional hunters with their clients, these stories will captivate you.

This book not only offers an exciting and often fascinating insight into hunting over a period of seventy-five years, but it also passes on lessons, insights, superstitions and skills from the Blackbeard's Bushmen companions.