White Hunters

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"Brian Heme provides invaluable documentation of a period that might otherwise have been consigned to oblivion, and does so with great style, high drama and skillful storytelling."-Ra/e/g/i News and Observer
East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: 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." White Hunters is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. It re-creates the legendary 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 four thousand miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch Hatton. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless... Tovább

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"Brian Heme provides invaluable documentation of a period that might otherwise have been consigned to oblivion, and does so with great style, high drama and skillful storytelling."-Ra/e/g/i News and Observer
East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: 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." White Hunters is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. It re-creates the legendary 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 four thousand miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch Hatton. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, their exploits inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.
Evoking the world of big-game hunting before poaching and politics intervened, White Hunters is a grand, sweeping adventure story featuring incredible places, animals, and people.
"A rich portrait of a magnificent landscape, its animal inhabitants and some of its most reckless human interlopers."-Pu6//s/)ers Weekly
Brian Herne, formerly a professional hunter, founded the international professional hunters' magazine Track, and has written for numerous magazines including Outdoor Life, Petersen's Hunting, Safari Times, and African Life.
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