Safari Press has delivered an impressive book in a slipcase, bound in green cloth with gold lettering and trim and a black mbogo on the cover.
Kabubi Kabubi to you too.

I read a friend's copy this summer while travelling and it is on my list to buy. Great book by one of my favorite people. I never had the priviledge of meeting him but I have NEVER heard anyone say anything negative about Finn. He had a very humble, peaceable way about him. In my opinion, he was one of the best writers we ever had.

Really, yukon delta?
Your friend got an advanced copy of some sort? I thought they just now shipped. The copyright date inside mine says 2008.

Sorry, meant to say the book I read was his "Aagaard's Africa: A hunter remembers".

My friend is also a writer and probably has an advanced copy from Berit as he was friends with them but that's not the one I read. Is it reworked material or stuff he never published? I imagine that Berit has unpublished material from him that she can still work with.

Ah, yes, Aagaard's Africa: A Hunter Remembers was the 1991 NRA publication, 196 pages.

Aagaard's African Adventures is "(c)2008 by Finn and Berit Aagaard." Published by Safari Press.

Dedication:
"To my children, in memory of their father, and to Bill, my second love. B.A."

I got copy number 120 of 1000 signed by Berit Aagaard.

This book contains the corrected material from the 1991 book and more text and photos. 345 pages.

If you listen to the 3-hour audio CD Finn and Berit made just before he died, you will hear him say he was not happy with the editing of the NRA book. Things are set right now.

Well, I need the audio CD too. Is it pretty good? What's on the CD?

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Originally posted by yukon delta:
Well, I need the audio CD too. Is it pretty good? What's on the CD?

Yes it is a good listen.

However I also ordered WDM Bell's audio book from Safari Press. The order took over five weeks to arrive, and they sent all the way to Australia the book INSTEAD of the audio CDs. The invoice correctly showed they were supposed to send audio CDs.

Sent an email asking for it to be fixed and what to do with the book at their cost.

A week or two, NO REPLY.

What's wrong with the place that it takes them so long to reply to an email/message about their f@ck-up!

Nitro, I was laughing while reading your post.

I ordered the Finn CD and the book by Bell and , you guessed it, I got the CDs of both. I contacted them by their contact form from their website and never got a response. After a week or so I sent another email to info@safaripress.com and they straightened it out. If that doesn't work let me know and I have another contact email you can try.

Good luck!

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Originally posted by yukon delta:
Well, I need the audio CD too. Is it pretty good? What's on the CD?

Finn and Berit tell of things from their Norwegian ancestors and their own childhood events, on to relocation to USA, down Texas way.

Finn drank beer at informal target shooting sessions with buddies at a police range in Kenya. Chasing Mau Mau, etc.

Berit posed like a Playboy Bunny in blue jeans on an elephant ear laid out in the grass.

Amongst the Kenyan natives, Masai, spitting on you is a sign of approval, acceptance and friendly greeting.

Things like that.

You get to hear Finn pronounce his name like "Ah'-gurd"/"augerd" and his Americanized daughter, Marit, pronounce it like "Ay'-gard"/"A Guard."

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Originally posted by McCray:
Nitro, I was laughing while reading your post.

I ordered the Finn CD and the book by Bell and , you guessed it, I got the CDs of both. I contacted them by their contact form from their website and never got a response. After a week or so I sent another email to info@safaripress.com and they straightened it out. If that doesn't work let me know and I have another contact email you can try.

Good luck!

Complex stuff, hey?

Will try the email address this time. I guess computer geeks get the messages from the web form. Thanks.

The Aagard CDs show how this bloke is such a nice guy. Almost after every paragraph in his talks he laughs. I imagine he was a very friendly guy and easy to get along with.

I love the way they used to interrupt their college studies by rushing off to hunt guerillas in the Mau Mau days. A different education, hey?!

EDITED: Safari Press responded to the email and are fixing up the order. Can't wait for the Bell audio CDs.

I just received the 3 CD set, and it is excellent. I have only been a casual AAgaard fan, but am hooked now. If you are into Ruark, you'll love this.

Ahh, that does it. I have to get it now. Is it a good format for listening to while driving? Where are you guys buying it and what is the cost? Thanks.

Great to listen to Finn laugh on the drive.
It is now $24.95 for the 3-hour, 3-CD audio.

www.safaripress.com

Hopefully the AAgAArds get a percentage too. Finn and Berit surely wised up after the NRA ways. Well the NRA was a good cause, but they could have done better by Finn.

Another new AAgAArd book from Wolfe Publishing Company (c)2007, large format soft cover, 202 pages:
FINN AAGAARD --Selected Works
This is a collection of 36 different articles from Handloader and Rifle magazines. Topics span the gamut, and have all the pictures and graphics of the originals except in B&W only. A phone call will get it to you in a few days, for $28.95 plus plus $7.25 S&H:
800-899-7810

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Originally posted by RIP:
Another new AAgAArd book from Wolfe Publishing Company (c)2007, large format soft cover, 202 pages:
FINN AAGAARD --Selected Works

... A phone call will get it to you in a few days, for $28.95 plus plus $7.25 S&H:
800-899-7810

Just FYI, it can also be ordered online at:

http://www.riflemagazine.com/catalog/detail.cfm?ProductID=874

-Bob F.

I just emailed Ludo Wurfbain at Safari Press. I really would enjoy more of these CD's by the Old East African hands. If some one is going to record them, they better get with it. Who's still around? Selby is. What about Dyer, Bartlett, Kingsley-Heath, Henley, Ron Thompson? They all have books, but it is better to hear the tales in their own voice, and not that of a ghost writer. Anybody else want to encourage Ludo to produce more?

That's an excellent idea. Post the email so we can get the requests to the same box. Thanks.

I recieved my copy 2 days ago. Have not had time to read it yet...

Safari Press

http://www.safaripress.com/help.php?section=contactus

Tell them what and whom you'd like to have a CD made.

I sent the email and added Richard Harland's name to the list of those I would buy audio cd's of.

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Originally posted by 450/400 Jeffrey's:
Safari Press

http://www.safaripress.com/help.php?section=contactus

Tell them what and whom you'd like to have a CD made.

Done.