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Heart of an African Hunter: Stories on the Big Five and Tiny Ten (Classics in African Hunting)

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I selected this book as my primary reading companion during a 2006 plainsgame safari in Namibia in 2006, and what a great choice it was. Flack is an excellent writer who does not publish often enough. He has a tremendous amount of experience to share. This book covers Flack's experience hunting in virtually every country in Africa where is possible to hunt, and ranges from well-known dangerous game species such as Elephant, Rhino, Lion, Buffalo, Crocodile etc. as well as typical plainsgame species (Eland, Springbok, Kudu, Bushbuck) and more exotic species including Sitatunga, Mountain Nyala and the "Tiny Ten," for which Flack makes an impressive case. He even includes a chapter on his hunt in Alaska. What I love so much about Flack's writing is that these are not simply hunting tales but are narratives of his entire travel and hunting experience. I like to read hunting books that both inform and entertain. When I finish a book and feel I have learned something while having a good time, I feel like my time was well spent. My time spent with this book - after lunch waiting for the evening hunt, sitting in a blind watching a waterhole, and sitting for endless hours in airports and on airplanes, was time well-spent. Thank you, Peter.

I would reccomend this book to anyone who is interested in African hunting from an African prospective. I found it well written and a fun read. It covers some of the more, to at least this American hunter, obscure species that are not covered a lot in most African hunting books. You will find very little of the hairy chested, self thumping that seems to gravitate toward a lot of books on this subject.

Informative, a great read, and all around enjoyable book by someone whose lived it and not just gone on a couple of safaris and become an "instant expert".

Being a hunter myself but being more a "table" hunter and never really having been a "trophy" hunter, I found the parts that dealt with the mindset and ethics of trophy hunting very interesting.

A good book and fine read.

I've read Peter Flack's stories in Magnum before and to be honest didn't like him. This book tells me more about the man as well as the hunts he has been on, and I like him, personally more and more as an ethical hunter, who occassionally slips up - He has hunted in places where I hardly knew there were places.

Great book, well written, interesting experiences, some of which mirror my own, but his experiences are far wider ranging 4.8 out of 5.

Anyone wanting to know what hunting is about when money is not an object, read this book - or just read it for the yarns.