Publisher's notes: "The golden age of safaris spanned eighty years, a time when such legendary hunters as R.J. Cunninghame, Philip Percival, J.A. Hunter, Karamoja Bell, and the romantic Denys Finch Hatton roamed the African bush. They inspired Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), whose stories became movies starring Clark Gable, Gregory Peck and Robert Redford. Romantic and frequently reckless, these professional hunters were witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle the earth has ever known....By 1910 Nairobi's dashing white hunters were in the ascendancy. Early safari clients, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Prince of Wales who would reign briefly as King Edward VII, came to the field kitted out with made-to-measure jodhpurs and bush jackets fitted with sewn-in cartridge loops. They sailed from New York or London on German Lloyd steamers and were met by deluxe trains at Mombasa for the journey into the heart of big-game country. In the first book to tell the complete story of the great African safaris, Brian Herne evokes the harmony that once existed between hunters and such magnificent animals as elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, and rhino - the big five - that roamed the high plateaus of East Africa in large numbers before poaching and politics intervened. Beyond the glamour of hunting safaris, the author shows the intricate connection between hunting and conservation and provides evidence that elephant and rhino populations are beginning to rebound after years of devastation."
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From Library Journal
If you are nostalgic about English colonialists in Africa, you'll relive the experience as you listen to White Hunters. The good natives appear as bush-beaters, gun-bearers, or trackers and are judged for their loyalty, while bad ones, like "Mau-Mau terrorists," were "dangerous," which made them "more exciting" to hunt than game. The hunters were white men who had discarded most of their inhibitions; their clients were American millionaires or European nobility. The slang here is inappropriate, the editing is sloppy, and, one senses, even narrator Robert Whitfield can't conceal his boredom describing the slaughter of so many animals. Not recommended.AJames L. Dudley, Westhampton Beach, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
Say the name Denys Finch Hatton with an English accent like Whitfield's, and this listener is already seeing Africa. Karen Blixen's lover, the aristocratic white hunter played by Robert Redford in OUT OF AFRICA, was actually quite bald. While perhaps more complete than the casual listener requires, the book stunningly recreates that lost Eden of gallantry, endurance, and sudden death: ". . . the four-hundred- pound cat knocked Pullman over like a sack of cotton, and his rifle flew from his grasp." Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Prince of Wales all have cameos, but true nobility here lies with the big five: Elephant, Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhinoceros. B.H.C. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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