With a Gun in Good Country [Hardcover]

Ian Manning (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1995

Insight into the life of a professional big game hunter in Zambia, Botswana, Congo and South Africa. The game and hunting legends plus the magic and memorable adventures, a few misspent years, and more in this dazzling series of stories about an almost unique period of time in Zambia and Africa's great gamelands.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 311 pages
• Publisher: Trophy Room Books; Limited edition (December 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882458079
• ISBN-13: 978-1882458073
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,741,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ruark he ain't, June 21, 2001

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Steve Williamson (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With a Gun in Good Country (Hardcover)

Ian Manning's safari memoir would have benefitted greatly from a better editing job. While many of the anecdotes are entertaining, the book is nothing more than a string of them in roughly chronological order. There is no theme, no pacing, and every event is treated with equal weight, whether it is a drunken prank or a tragic death. The book reads like a virtually unedited journal, except that Manning is fuzzy on so many details that he obviously isn't working from a complete contemporaneous diary. But Manning isn't a professional writer, and perhaps he shouldn't be held to too high a standard; his ediitors have no such excuse. If you like safari yarns, and you already have a shelf full of Selous, Baker, Finaughty, Ruark and Capstick, you might want to add this one to your collection, but all the above are much better writers.