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PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805067361
ISBN-139780805067361
eBay Product ID (ePID)1841170
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhite Hunters : the Golden Age of African Safaris
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHunting, Special Interest / Adventure, Africa / General, Sociology / General, Animals / Wildlife
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenreNature, Travel, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
AuthorBrian Herne
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsAn authoritative and colorful study of African safaris that will appeal to armchair adventurers and history buffs alike., . . . provides invaluable documentation of a period that might otherwise have been consigned to oblivion, and does so with great style . . ., "An authoritative and colorful study of African safaris that will appeal to armchair adventurers and history buffs alike." --The Wall Street Journal ". . . a rich portrait of a magnificent landscape, its animal inhabitants and some of its most reckless human interlopers." --Publishers Weekly ". . . provides invaluable documentation of a period that might otherwise have been consigned to oblivion, and does so with great style . . ." --Raleigh News and Observer, "An authoritative and colorful study of African safaris that will appeal to armchair adventurers and history buffs alike." -- The Wall Street Journal ". . . a rich portrait of a magnificent landscape, its animal inhabitants and some of its most reckless human interlopers." -- Publishers Weekly ". . . provides invaluable documentation of a period that might otherwise have been consigned to oblivion, and does so with great style . . ." -- Raleigh News and Observer, . . . a rich portrait of a magnificent landscape, its animal inhabitants and some of its most reckless human interlopers.
Dewey Decimal799.2/6/09226 B
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisEast 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., Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. 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 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 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.
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