Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa - Hardcover

Kingsley-Heath, John

9780873649582: Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873649583 ISBN 13: 9780873649582

Publisher: Sycamore Island Books, 1998

The story of the author's life as a professional huner and conservationist in East Africa. He recounts many of his greatest hunts, biggest trophies, narrowest escapes and liveliest campfire tales.

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Arguably the best big-game book ever written!

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From one of the last surviving professional hunters of Africa's golden years of big-game hunting comes the most important book out of Africa in our lifetime. After 30 years of thrilling encounters with East Africa's and Botswana's most dangerous game, Kingsley-Heath has at last chronicled his greatest adventures with elephant, Cape buffalo, rhino, leopard, hippo, and lion, including the terrifying tale of his being savaged and nearly killed in a battle with a huge Tanzanian lion. This gripping and thoughtful tome is a virtual history of the glory days of African big-game hunting and recounts such memorable characters as the great Jack O'Connor and his wife, Eleanor; Syd Downey; Baron Werner Von Alvensleben; Donald Ker; Charles Cottar; and many others anyone familiar with the old days of East Africa and Botswana will remember with a smile. Here you will read the tales that have been told around African campfires for decades, including: hunting the mighty Morrill elephant, tracking down and killing the infamous "Maneater of Darajani," which had just dined upon poacher Mindu Ngui outwitting a killer hippo that had been terrorizing a village, coming face-to-face with a monstrous rogue elephant that was using the flattened body of an African as a fly whisk battling Jack O'Connor's famous "Indestructible Buffalo", cramming his fist down the throat of the giant lion that was trying to kill him-as his gunbearer fled in terror stalking the notorious Hombolo rhino, staging elephant stampedes, capturing rhinos, and arranging leopard attacks for the films Hatari and Sammy Going South walking into a pride of 17 killer lions and opening fire at point-blank range, killing 10 and hunting a fabulous Ethiopean black leopard But Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa is more than just hunting tales, for here you will learn of decades of crucial conservation work undertaken by Kingsley-Heath and his fellow professional hunters, calling upon their vast experience with Africa's endangered wildlife and dwindling natural resources. The book also includes a meticulous and eye-opening study of knock-down value of the great safari calibers and a long list of who's who in East African and Botswanan big-game hunting. Come along for the adventure of a lifetime!

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