Brooke's Leopard blind reading

Winds of Havoc

A Memoir of Adventure and Destruction In Deepest Africa by PH Adelino Serras Pires .. More

 

In the bush with Eric Balson: On Safari with Bwana Game

The opening chapters are On Safari with H.R.H. Prince Bernhard (of the Netherlands) who all together took eleven safaris with Balson between 1960 and 1973.
Then my imagination was caught by the men and times Eric writes about. . MORE

A Life on Safari, by PH Geoff Broom with Craig Boddington

Published by Mission Trail Media, LLC
By Brooke ChilversLubin

Only several dozen names represent the real backbone of the modern safari industry. To a list that includes Harry Selby, Volker Grellman, Robin Hurt, Peter Johnstone, Danny McCallum, Mark Kyriacou, Basie Maartens, etc., the name Geoff Broom has its own proud place.
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PH Sten Cedergren:  The Adventurous Life of a Vagabond Hunter

By Brooke ChilversLubin

Generally, I like knowing a PH personally before reading his book. Then again, not every hunting book makes me wish I knew the author personally.
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African Epic : The Story of Paul ‘Kambada’ Grobler

Harland, the author of his own elephant-downing autobiography, The Hunting Imperative also published by Rowland Ward, and most recently, Ndlovu: The Art of Hunting the African Elephant.
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Kai-Uwe Denker : Along the Hunter’s Path – Thoughts and Experiences of a Professional Hunter

Before opening this compact, heavy volume brimming with 162 colour photos of safari life in Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Cameroon, I never expected the author to be the long-legged blonde Namibian giant standing at the ASG booth at the 2007 SCI Convention.
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The Hunting Blackbeards of Botswana

Recently in Botswana, every tourist seemed to be reading, in one language or another, one of Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books, like Tears of a Giraffe or the Kalahari Typing School for Men. 
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