Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure

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In fascinating and often amusing detail, Bull depicts both the hardships and the incongruous luxury of the classic safaris of the early 20th century and presents the legend of the great white hunter as seen by H. Rider Haggard, Hemingway, and Hollywood. 275 photos and illustrations, 75 in full color.
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London 1992 Paperback New This mint, classic, paperback, Penguin Books, London, 1992, has glossy pictorial covers. The book size is 8.5" w x 10.5" h with maps, a glossary, a ... bibliography, many illustrations, an index and 383 pristine pages on high quality paper. ISBN 0140168850. ( This is about the true safaris-where you drink out of a canvas bag and wash your face in a tri-legged canvas "basin." This is the antithesis of the present pampered city type "safaris" that have more in common with show business than the bush. ) "In 1866 Mzilikazi had permitted the first two safaris of European elephant hunters to hunt in Mashonaland to the north of Matabeleland. One party was led by the Englishman Henry Hartley, and the other by Jan Viljoen and Petrus Jacobs, who together bagged 210 elephant in one season. Greedy, trading for ever more tusks, Viljoen betrayed Mzilikazi by bartering five guns with a Mashona tribe. This proved to be an expensive trade for the vassal Mashona tribe, which an annoyed Mzilikazi soon Read more Show Less

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In fascinating and often amusing detail, Bull depicts both the hardships and the incongruous luxury of the classic safaris of the early 20th century and presents the legend of the great white hunter as seen by H. Rider Haggard, Hemingway, and Hollywood. 275 photos and illustrations, 75 in full color.
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Bull's 1988 volume chronicles the history of the African safari from its 1830s origin, plus the ethics of hunting and modern conservationist concerns. The text profiles the great hunters, most of whom were wealthy British and European colonials for whom Africa was a lawless playground unencumbered by the Victorian bindings of home. Bull also tracks how the safari has been portrayed in literature through the writings of Isak Dinesen, Teddy Roosevelt, and Papa Hemingway, as well as by Hollywood. The role of women in the male-dominated affair also gets ample coverage, with amusing pix of very proper British ladies in long skirts and gloves standing next to hulking beasts they've dispatched with rifles the size of a howitzer. Miraculously, a small cadre of holdouts is keeping the safari alive, but with many of the once abundant game animals on endangered species lists, camera have replaced rifles, and with Africa's unstable political climate, the great hunts are all but history. The text is buttressed by numerous illustrations and photographs. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780140168853
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/1/1992
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 8.44 (w) x 10.64 (h) x 0.96 (d)

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