African Trails-Big Game Safari Adventure in Southern Africa

Hardback with dustcover over laminated boards.

African Trails is a copiously illustrated BIG volume-actually three classic books in one. In his unique, racy style, Col Allison takes you on safari in Book One through the Days of Yore when the so-called Dark Continent was still being settled, the tribes were at war and the explorer-missionary-hunters were astounded by the sheer volume of extraordinary game they encountered in a blood-soaked land.

We meet some of the most famous, innovative and heroic men of their era- Sir Samuel Baker, R. Gordon-Cumming, William Charles Baldwin, Arthur H. Neumann, Frederick Courtenay Selous, John Pondoro Taylor, and W.D.M. (Karamojo) Bell- in their inveterate quest for fame, fortune and the ubiquitous White Gold- Ivory. To a man, they thought the game would never end....Generations later, it's off with Col in Book Two chasing trophies like Cape buffalo, lion and the rarer antelope in South Africa in 1981, the heyday of the modern safari.

In Book Three, we accompany the author on The Long Trail after the Big Five of the day- Cape buffalo, lion, leopard, hippo and elephant-always on the spoor of  big tusker bulls and forever dodging protected black rhino. This is the very stuff of legend. The tell-it-as-it-is tale of the incredible highs and lows of the hunt in a land of mystique and majesty that today still teems with bite-back big-game.

Half Title, Frontispiece, Title, Dedication, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents. Introduction 361 pages text with numerous supporting colour photographs, images etc.

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ISBN 978 0 949114 00 6