Author: Ron ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Mahohboh
Author: Ron ThomsonThe Wildlife Game
Author: Ron ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Mahohboh
Author: Ron ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780620442053
Category : Elephant hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book has been acclaimed by many to be the most definitive work on elephant hunting ever written. It contains a background that explains elephant management in a manner that is, inter alia, supportive of elephant hunting. Shot placement is a major part of the books message; and explaining just how to get a bullet into an elephants brain is a major objective. The heart and lung shots are described; and the value of crippling shots into the spine and hip joints - when wounded elephants are running away - is also emphasized. Pictures of an elephant bull carcass - propped up on its brisket and cut in half longitudinally - photographically illustrate the positions of the vital organs. The latter half of the book contains some of the authors most exciting elephant hunting stories - which are NOT repeated in the big game hunting memoir series. This makes MAHOHBOH an essential "companion" book to the big game hunting memoir series.
Black Poachers, White Hunters
Author: Edward I. SteinhartPublisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852559604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 1977 the Kenyan government banned all hunting, whether by sportsmen or Kenyan Africans, in response to the poaching crisis that was then spreading across the African continent. This brought an end to the era of the 'Great White Hunters' in this 'sportsman's paradise'. This book traces the history of hunting during Kenya's colonial era from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Three main themes emerge: first, is the importance of hunting to Kenyan farmers and herders; second is the attempt during European colonization of Kenya to recreate in Africa the practices and values of nineteenth-century European aristocratic hunts, which reinforced an image of African inferiority and subordination; third, is the role of the conservationists, who claimed sovereignty over nature and wildlife, completing the transformation of African hunters into criminal poachers. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Timot
Author: Frans BijsterveldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
(Proceeds of this book are for the Zimbabwe Pensioners' Support Fund, which supports 1500 retired people in Zimbabwe who have very little. They are given food parcels, wheelchairs etc. by the ZPSF, based in South Africa) . . . . Make no mistake, Timot's world was often fraught with hidden dangers where not everyone returned home in one piece. A colleague was killed by a lion, another mauled by a leopard and yet another gored by a buffalo. And then of course, there was the bush war to contend with. Luck, however, was on Timot's side. He was the real deal in the world of National Parks and wildlife conservation in Rhodesia. When only 28 and with a young wife and two small sons, Tim Braybrooke became the youngest warden in the country, in a remote, undeveloped game park on the Mozambique border. It was teeming with aggressive elephant and far away from civilisation, but by the time he left, he and his team had done a great job. They all went on to make their mark in the country's national parks, and some, like Timot, set up their own successful safaris. Timot was born in Salisbury and eventually went to Plumtree School, where he met his friend-for-life, Storm Stenslunde. What they got up to and got away with at such a young age is the stuff of legend.
A Game Warden's Report
Author: Ron ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Documents of Freedom
Author: Ron ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781590911723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Unique Collective Awareness
Author: UcadiaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781644190128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An Idea about a new Model of education, linguistics, philosophy, history, law, religion, political science, economics, sociology, physics, chemistry and materials sciences.
The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter
Author: Walter Dalrymple Maitland BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephant hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Elephant management
Author: Robert (Bob) ScholesPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776142276
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Elephants are among the most magnificent – but also most problematic –members of South Africa's wildlife population. While they are sought after by South African and foreign tourists alike, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result, elephant management has become a highly complex and often controversial discipline. The information needed to underpin vital decisions about elephant management has largely been unavailable to decision-makers, contested by experts, or simply unknown. As a result, the South African Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism convened a round table to advise him on this issue. The round table recommended that a scientific assessment of elephant management be undertaken to gather, evaluate, and present all the relevant information on this topic. Its main findings and recommendations are contained in this volume. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind, combining the work of more than 60 national and international experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and other stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive review of savanna elephant populations and factors relevant to managing them to date. As such it is of interest to a broad spectrum of readers in South Africa and elsewhere. Above all, it is aimed at helping conservation policy-makers and practitioners to choose the best possible options for the sustainable preservation of these iconic animals.