African Hunter was originally written by Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, and then translated from Swedish to English by FH Lyon in 1938. It was then republished as part of the Peter Capstick Hunting and Adventure Library by Peter Hathaway Capstick and Saint Martins Press in 1986. This book is considered to be a fine example of Africana, with detailed descriptions of Bror Blixen's travels and hunts. It is also a good travel companion for anyone that is visiting the African veldt or desert. There is an introductory chapter written by the editor, explaining how times have changed, and why the book needs to be viewed through the lens of time. Most of the book talks about hunting, visiting remote locales, Bror's fr'iends, and the animals he sees/shoots, and so on. However, this book has an entire chapter devoted to Bror Blixen's trek across the Sahara Desert in his International truck. Originally brought to Africa by one of the Vice Presidents of IHC, the truck was sold to Blix and his English companion Sir Charles Markham, who also kept a diary of the trip. They drove the truck, a 1928 3/4-ton open-sided 2WD canopy express model, 1,880 miles from Kano to Reggan without a road. This was the first crossing of the Sahara in a vehicle that was not specially-built for the trip. After reading the story, they were lucky to have made it. It is exciting reading.
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Text: English, Swedish (translation)
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By Fontaine Ralston "Fontaine Ralston" (the Mississippi Delta) - See all my reviews
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This book is personable, entertaining, and full of hunting stories without being too technical. Unexpectedly, in a book about hunting, Von Blixen compassionately remembers his wild animal pets. He sketches their personalities as he does his friends like Hemmingway, Guest, or various safari guides rather than dismiss them as dumb beasts.Sara Wheeler's Too Close To The Sun set me on a path of fascination with these adventurers who toughed it out in Africa during the Colonial era around WWI. Fortunately her bibliography lists lots of reading material. I have been humbled to learn of the physical and mental endurance required by those who loved Africa enough to make it home. These were outsiders who lived amongst the tribes in the agricultural regions of the countryside. Europe and Britain couldn't contain the large, soul-searching personalities of Bror Blixen, Isaak Dineson, Beryl Markham, Denys Finch Hatton and their compatriots. I am tracking down, so to speak, each eccentric, stubborn settler mentioned in books about this era. I wish Von Blixen had told more stories. His life was one Big Adventure; he knew only fascinating people, from the Prince of Wales to revered African Kings, whom we'll only learn about through this book. I'm hooked on tales of these adventurous people.
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Blixen has a style all his own,
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Blixen has a writing style which is very easy to read. He writes just like he was speaking with you by the fire and his book is full of entertaining anecdotes and opinions related to the behaviors of game and of the places he visited during his career in East Africa. Blixen relies on specific details less than some of the other writers in this series and paints a perhaps less vivid portrait of the bush but his adventures are entertaining and his insights are heartwarming. It's easy for me to see why people had trouble disliking the man in spite of his amorous proclivities.
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