Dark navy boards with gilt outline, and gilt antelope vignette and blocking to upper board.
Fred Duckworth has written this book as if it were, in many respects, a book about "Old Africa." The works of Selous, Bell, Stigand, Baldwin, Cumming and others are well known to most of us who had an interest in the exploration, hunting and safari life of the Dark Continent. It was these early author's thirst for adventure that opened are eyes and minds to distant lands, unknown cultures, and the remarkable wildlife of the African continent. Fred continues in that noble tradition. His yarns vividly describe deadly encounters with rampaging elephants, malevolent Cape buffaloes, cunning leopards, ferocious lions and malintentioned natives. His stories hark back to the days when Africa was for the most part wild, uncensored, and unexplored.
Yet this book is much more than an attempt at recounting the trevails and adventures of an extraordinary life led by a unique individual. Here is a professional life led by a unique individual. Here is a professional hunter who has lived many lives in one and has survived to be able to talk about them. He writes in the first person, but not as one who is vainglorious in the pursuit of his own adulatiion. To the contrary, he is a raconteur capable of bringing the reader face to face with the agony of prospective death only a few feet away. At the same time, uniquely, he tells of the follies of foolish hunters as well as professionals in his chosen line of work who themselves are less than professional. And, he is not diffident when it comes to painting pictures of his own foibles with an honest self-deprecating brush where appropriate.
This numbered and signed edition is the seventy-fourth book in the Classics in African Hunting Series. Published by Safari Press. This book is numbered 328 of 1000 copies.
Certificate- Fred Duckworth & Elise van der Heijden, Half Title, Frontispiece, Title, Dedication, Table of Contents, Foreword, Acknowledgements, A Paradoxical Paradise Lost Forever. xiv plus 384 pages text with maps, and coloured photographs, data etc.
Fine with Slipcase
ISBN 978 1 57157 396 4
- Jacket Condition: Boards as Published-Fine
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 28.5 X 22cm with Slipcase
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