This is the first book written by W. D. M. Bell, an intrepid adventurer, who was known far and wide as "Karamojo" Bell for his extraordinary elephant-hunting exploits in the Karamoja province of Uganda and elsewhere. Wanderings, considered by many to be the greatest of all elephant books by the greatest of all elephant hunters, is a series of elephant-hunting essays and stories from the glory days of...
In addition to Finn Aagaard’s book, there is a fascinating 3 hour CD of reminiscences by Finn of is Kenyan days, which he recorded in 1999 shortly before his death. Finn tells us of his family’s early life on the farm, his first game animal, and his first Mauser rifle. He recollects the Mau Mau rebellion and he tells tales of the hunters and ranchers who inhabited Kenya colony and he talks about his work for the NRA and how he came to write for its magazines for 11 years. (He was one of the NRA’s all-time most popular writers.) Finn Aagaard, one of the best-known....
By the late 1800s the British Empire in Africa was nearing its crescent. In Southern Africa one large swath of land was still not under British control: the Zulu Kingdom. No war in colonial Africa, be it French, German, Belgian, or British, has more riveted the imagination than the Zulu War. The Zulu Kingdom, started by the ruthless Shaka, was England’s immediate neighbor in what is today South Africa. In a series of...
This is Craig Boddington's sequel to From Mt. Kenya to the Cape-the story of Boddington's hunts in the Dark Continent. Since writing his first African book, he has shot big game in Ethiopia, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, and Botswana-an unparalleled hunting accomplishment. From the steaming jungles of the Congo basin in...
