Someone may have already posted on this great new book and I missed it. If so, I am sorry but I have just started reading it and in fact I could have finished it at one sitting, but like a good single malt scotch, I want to savor it over these cold winter evenings. This one may be up there with those rare few really iconic African hunting books. "Dreaming the Lion" although not strictly about Africa, has long been one of those books that I keep at my bedside and re-read regularly. In that book his use of the short article/story/essay approach are really suited to telling a hunting story as an adventure not an epic. The way he approached the long narrative of his first African hunt in short day-by-day vignettes at the beginning of each chapter spread the delightful suspenseful hunt out over the length of the book. I have always admired McIntyre's thoughtful erudition and intellectual yet emotional approach to hunting and this book is no exception. Again it is set up in the short essay/story style and each chapter is a jewel. He often lays out the historical background of the area he hunts and that contributes so much to one's appreciation of the content. His stunning vocabulary make me wish I had bought the book on Kindle so I wouldn't have to look up the words I don't know. Yet his dense, rich style and his depth of feeling for hunting and for Africa take me back again and again.

The book also includes a wonderful, deferential foreword by Craig Boddington which is arguably some of his best and most thoughtful prose. I like much of Craig's writing and think he undersells his own work but his evaluation of McIntyre's book sets up perfectly.

In my own very humble opinion this very literary book will go in my library with "African Game Trails," "Out of Africa", "Horn of the Hunter", "The Green Hills of Africa" and a few select others.