White Hunters - by Brian Herne (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This story of the great African safaris evokes the harmony that once existed between hunters and the elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, and rhino that roamed East Africa in large numbers before poaching and politics intervened. The author argues that there is an intricate connection between hunting and conservation, and evidence that elephant and rhino populations are beginning to rebound after years of devastation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"An authoritative and colorful study of African safaris that will appeal to armchair adventurers and history buffs alike." --<i>The Wall Street Journal</i> <p/>". . . a rich portrait of a magnificent landscape, its animal inhabitants and some of its most reckless human interlopers." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>". . . provides invaluable documentation of a period that might otherwise have been consigned to oblivion, and does so with great style . . ." --<i>Raleigh News and Observer</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Brian Herne</b>, formerly a professional hunter, founded the international professional hunters' magazine Track, and has written for numerous magazines, including<i> Outdoor Life, Petersen's Hunting, Safari Times, </i>and <i>African Life</i>. He lives in San Diego, California.</p>
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