White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805067361)

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.

Author: Brian Herne
ISBN-10: 0805067361
ISBN-13: 9780805067361
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.40d