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Has anyone here read these titles, I would like to hear your impressions. Thanks.

Tales from the African Frontier, Mannix and Hunter

African Twilight : The Story of a Hunter, Robert F. Jones

 
Posts: 207 | Location: Nicolet National Forest, WI, USA | Registered: 21 January 2002Reply With Quote
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Of these, I've read "African Twilight" three times. Jones is a great writer, and I really enjoy this book, but some of it reads like fiction - at least that's my impression.

Sidenote: A recent one I purchased and read that is one of the best contemporary African books ever written is Walter Prothero's, "Safari: A Dangerous Affair". There is no imbellishment or nonsense to this one. It's written from the perspective of a modern safari client/hunter, and it's as true to life as it gets. I've come to respect Walter Prothero a great deal.

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Have you read any other of Jones' stuff? The Diamond Bogo is a great fun read. Bloodsport a classic outdoors cult novel.
 
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Allen:

I was hoping for a bad review of Prothero's book. I've been tempted but the books are getting really expensive.

"African Twilight" is too soupy (touchy-feely). It's a chick book.

 
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Ditto Will, now I gotta find that Prothero book.

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I just got the hunter&mannix book and can t wait to read it. but I bought The Hunting Imperative by Richard Haarland. this is a real pageturner. anyone who has read other african huntingbooks they can recomend.
 
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Fred, I've also read two other books by Robert F. Jones: "Tie My Bones To Her Back" (a novel about buffalo hunting in the Texas Panhandle) and "Deadville" (another novel of the Old West). Both are superbly written, but the former is a bit improbable, even for a novel.

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I can't find any reference to The Hunting Imperative or Haarland. Do you know the ISBN?

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I just got the hunter&mannix book and can t wait to read it. but I bought The Hunting Imperative by Richard Haarland. this is a real pageturner. anyone who has read other african huntingbooks they can recomend.

 
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Just to show everyone has differant taste, I didnt think Prothero's book lived up to my expectations of it.
I think Tony Marshes book, 14 years in the african bush to be a very good. If you can stand the price, Terry irwins memoirs of an african hunter is the best african hunting book I've ever read. Check out the used shops for Brian Hernes, uganda safaries too.
 
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I read African Twilight a few years ago, and think it's just so-so. There's a lot better stuff out there.
 
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Mike375 and I have the same opinion on African Twilight. There is better stuff out there.
 
Posts: 331 | Location: DeBeque, Co. | Registered: 09 August 2001Reply With Quote
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The two most enjoyable Africa hunting books I have read are Brian Herne's "White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris," and Bartle Bull's "Safari."

Another great read, though not about hunting, is "Battle for the Bundu," by Charles Miller, on von Lettow Voerbeck's fight against the Brits in East Africa during WWI. Also Byron Farwell's "The Great War in Africa."

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I just got the hunter&mannix book and can t wait to read it. but I bought The Hunting Imperative by Richard Haarland. this is a real pageturner. anyone who has read other african huntingbooks they can recomend.

 
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go to safaripress.com they have everything you are looking for. Rowlandward.com is a good site too
 
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