I danced a jig when I got the Safari Press Audio Book in the mail last weekend. It is great to hear the voice of St. Finn telling his stories. The coming $70.00 book put together by Berit Aagaard has not shipped yet but those $19.99 3-CD sets have, backordered long ago.

That reminded me of Tracks Across Africa featuring a lot of "Kabubi Kabubi" lately, kuhboobee kuhboobee.

Getting ready for an elephant hunt in Tanzania must require special preparation in addition to the financial aspect of it.

Back in camp there is hoisting and carrying the successful bwana in a chair, even the +300 pounders are staggered along a few inches off the ground for a few steps ... and various gyrations and hopping about while yelling "Kabubi-Kabubi" and some other refrain.

Bwana himself is expected to get out of the chair and hop and gyrate a bit, it seems, in addition to the mandatory pandemonium by all dancing around the fresh killed elephant carcass in the field.

Graig Boddington does the Kabubi Kabubi like a white guy. His PH Michel does better.

The +300 pounder took a gung ho stab at it but I sure hope I can do better than either Craig or him.

Are there any Kabubi Kabubi dance classes available or someone with a few pointers on how to dance like a native?

Try MTV some nights after 10 pm. Maybe you can pick up some moves from the videos on there.

Personally I think enthusiasm is way more important than style but if you insist on trying to be an overacheiver....

Nice to hear they are shipping them, I have waited almost two years for my order.

Just a heads up for all of you who put in a early order for Finn's tapes and Berits book. If your credit card has changed or has a new expiration date, you need to update your BO records are you will not get your reserved order.

I found out the hard way, thanks to my wife asking why we had not gotten the tapes, I called and updated the very old reservation.
Robert

RobertJr,
So the book has not shipped yet, eh?
It will be an expanded version of Finn's book from 1991, doubled in size, in words and pictures, IIRC.
Check those credit card expiration dates y'all: Safari Press

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RobertJr,
So the book has not shipped yet, eh?
It will be an expanded version of Finn's book from 1991, doubled in size, in words and pictures, IIRC.
Check those credit card expiration dates y'all: Safari Press

They tell me the book will ship in October.....
Gary

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They tell me the book will ship in October.....

Rats! I was hoping to have it to read on the long ride over the pond. At least it will help with the post safari depression.

Wolfe Publictions also has a compilation of St. Finn's work out now. Saw it advertised in the latest Handloader magazine. Can't remember the title right now, something about "Aagaard" ... sometimers ...

Aagaard trivia:

Finn's first centerfire rifle was an 8x64mm Mauser sporter Type B.

Finn and Berit were both virgins when they got married.

Finn pronounces his name like: "Ah-gerd" or "augered" as in "drilled a hole."

His Americanized daughter, Marit, says it like "Ay-guard" (long "A" sound leading).

St. Finn?

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St. Finn?

Yep, that is an old one around here. You just now catching on?

New title from Wolfe Publishing: FINN AAGAARD Selected Works
$28.95 plus $7.00 shipping.

Finn got a raw deal on _Aagaard's Africa_ by the NRA. Their editors rewrote it heavily to the point that Finn said much of it is just "wrong." He did not even like the title that the NRA gave the little book. He made no money from it.

Safari Press coming book: Hopefully it incorporates Finn's original, non-NRA-edited drafts and the expanded book that Berit has put together will sort it all out, with double the prose and pictures.

Finn had a much better relationship publishing-wise with Wolfe, freedom of expression and a non-exclusive contract, than he did with the NRA.

Hopefully Berit and Safari Press have a good working relationship.

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St. Finn?

Yep, that is an old one around here. You just now catching on?

No, just that I was never impressed with him. In fact, have been told by one who knew him well that he wasn't a particularly good hunter. This comment came from a man who was described by Eric Rundgren as "a brilliant hunter" and you have to know of Rundgren to realize that this was no small praise. Indeed Rundgren was a monumental bastard but he was an animal in the wild on the hunt, completely in his element.

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Originally posted by Showbart:
St. Finn?

Yep, that is an old one around here. You just now catching on?

No, just that I was never impressed with him. In fact, have been told by one who knew him well that he wasn't a particularly good hunter. This comment came from a man who was described by Eric Rundgren as "a brilliant hunter" and you have to know of Rundgren to realize that this was no small praise. Indeed Rundgren was a monumental bastard but he was an animal in the wild on the hunt, completely in his element.

I am sure that Finn Aagaard would be the first to admit that he was not "the best" at anything, except maybe honesty, and not being a "whore" for any industry.

"St. Finn" is good by me. If you think not, that is your problem alone.