Author: Robert C. Ruark Publisher: Safari Press ISBN: 9781571570246 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari in East Africa in the 1950s. Ruark's philosophies are intertwined in the hunting stories to make unforgettable reading.
Author: Brian Herne Publisher: Holt Paperbacks ISBN: 146686754X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 481
Book Description
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: John Kingsley-Heath Publisher: ISBN: Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 504
Book Description
The story of the author's life as a professional hunter and conservationist in East Africa. He recounts many of his greatest hunts, biggest trophies, narrowest escapes and liveliest campfire tales.
Author: Amadou Ouédraogo Publisher: Sans Souci Books ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
From its medieval origins to the present, Mandé culture in West Africa is known for its highly intriguing art and tradition of hunting; undeniably one of its most conspicuous distinctive features. Totally entrenched in myth, legend and history; firmly grounded in the supernatural, the divine and the abstruse, hunting is altogether a cult, a ritual gesture, a token of allegiance to divine forces. Considered to be a dauntless intrusion of man into the realm of metaphysics and the “unknown”, the hunting vocation transcends by far the confines of human and tangible spheres. This study examines various articulations of the hunting art and tradition as they are conveyed in numerous African literary and cinematographic works. It elucidates the mythical and supernatural magnitude of the hunting activity by showing how it is presided over by immutable deities and tutelary figures. Held to be endowed with infrangible supernatural and esoteric proportions, hunting is deemed to be a reflection of Mandé people’s worldview, a vibrant expression of how they perceive and articulate their existence as part of, and in relation to the world. From all perspectives, traditional hunting in Mandé society is viewed as a noble, dignified and revered activity; sustained by a vehement sense of brotherhood, esprit de corps, faithful loyalty, compassion, munificence. It encompasses a set of principles and values enjoined by transcendent forces, in illo tempore, and meant to serve as timeless paradigmatic ideals to be preserved and handed down along generations. By persistently echoing the magnificence of the hunting art and tradition, African artists place the vocation at the heart of contemporary Africans’ yearning quest for origins, identity and plenitude.
Author: Kalman Kittenberger Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 9780312032944 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
An intrepid, humorous Hungarian hunter-collector, Kalman Kittenberger offers one of the most heartstopping, charming, and funny accounts of adventure in the Kenya Colony ever penned--a diamond of reality in a field full of sensationalist writing. Illustrated.
Author: Angela Thompsell Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137494433 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
Author: Robert C. Ruark
Author: Lou Hallamore
Author: Brian Herne
Author: John Kingsley-Heath
Author: Gordon Cundill
Author: Amadou Ouédraogo
Author: Kalman Kittenberger
Author: John Tinney McCutcheon
Author: George Agnew Chamberlain
Author: Angela Thompsell