White Hunters (Paperback)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2001
First published:	June 2001
Authors:	Brian Herne
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	468
ISBN-13:	978-0-8050-6736-1
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting > Hunting or shooting animals & game Books > Humanities > History > African history > From 1900 > General Books > History > African history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-8050-6736-1
Barcode:	9780805067361

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