During a half century, John Boyes created much of Africa's colorful history. If there was a desert to be crossed, a jungle to be tamed, a government to be swindled, a local tribe to be befriended or exploited, John Boyes was there.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing adventures,
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This review is from: The Company of Adventurers (Resnick Library of African Adventure) (Hardcover)
John Boyes lived several lifetimes worth of adventures. I found this book to be entertaining at times but somewhat tedious as well. If you are a collector of safari and colonial era books you should by all means add this title to your collection. For the more casual reader I would start with Corbett, Patterson, Ruark and Capstick. Their writing is much more consistently engaging in my opinion.
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If you enjoy exciting African Safari stories you'll like this.
It's not Capstick, or Ruark by any means, but very enjoyable just the same.
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An acquired taste,
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I was a bit surprised when I started reading as it was a hard book to get into. But he really did live a life full of adventure. I also found it interesting that a few later African hunters have written stories of their experiences that are told in this tale. Maybe one or two later hunters- one between the wars in particular- took a story or two from Boyes' book thinking it would not be noticed? You need to concentrate when reading his tale but it is well worth it. He mentions in passing things that to me would be a major adventure! I would have liked to have seen a little information about his hunting rifles but many early day hunters don't talk about their gear either. A book well worth owning!
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