Here is the link. boomarang books Could not find a US company that handled it. Ebay had nothing.

This sounds a bit like 'Out of Africa' with Natasha playing the part of Dennnis Fitch Hatton.

It is soposed to be her life story of sorts. I am sure that there is some sort of wise, metaphorical, and philisophical HS that could explain all the similairities between art and fiction and truth but I can't think of it right now.

I would still like to read the book. I am taken by this lady and her story for some reason.

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Originally posted by ElCaballero:
It is soposed to be her life story of sorts. I am sure that there is some sort of wise, metaphorical, and philisophical HS that could explain it all but I can't think of it right now.

I would still like to read the book. I am taken by this lady and her story for some reason.

It wouldn't have anything to do with her picture would it? Wouldn't we all like to hunt with a beautiful PH that behaves like Bunny Allen?

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Originally posted by Mickey1:

It wouldn't have anything to do with her picture would it?

I will admit that there is a soft spot in my heart for a good lookin blonde swedish lady with a rifle.

Also try http://www.abebooks.com

There are several sellers listed; some in the U.S.

-Bob F.

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Na...n+The+Blue+Sofa&x=55

Does someone have those pictures of her to post again, please?

Thanks,

lawndart

http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2004/09/18/408602.html

-Bob F.

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Originally posted by lawndart:

Does someone have those pictures of her to post again, please?

I started this, but lets remain gentlemen. Which I am sure you are Lawndart.

I am just saying this as I know how crude this board can get. Again I am not saying you were being anything else but a gentlemen I am just making a request of future posts on this thread.

The pictures were originally posted on this thread.

It would be an interesting experience to hunt with a lady PH. I'd like to take my wife on that hunt.

I think it woud be a real eye opener for her to see a lady doing this work.

Greg

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Originally posted by surestrike:
It would be an interesting experience to hunt with a lady PH.

Greg

I would just like to hunt in Africa. The PH could be a big fat ugly hairy guy with rotton teeth for all I care.

Looks like Natasha has a new novel coming out.

-Bob F.

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http://www.artpeople.dk/Natasha_Illum_Berg.736.0.html

Danish-Swedish Natasha Illum Berg (born 1971) emerged as an author in 1999 with her best-selling first novel “Rivers of Red Earth†delineating her apprenticeship as a big game hunter in Kenya. The book was published in Sweden (Norstedts), Holland (Arena), Italy (TEA), and Germany (Eichborn). Since 1997 Natasha Illum Berg is working as the only female big game hunter in East Africa, based in Tanzania.


NATASHA ILLUM BERG
SO WANTON A GOD
A Novel
Approx 240 pages
Publication date September 2005

A new novel by the author of the international best-sellers Rivers of Red Earth and Tea on the Blue Sofa.

A Spanish bullfighter is standing at a crossroads in his life: a career whose end is drawing near, and a problematic love affair. In existential desperation, he decides to seek the ultimate challenge – a single combat with an African buffalo.

The novel poses questions: Are we nothing more than blind marionettes in the inscrutable game of destiny? Can we be true to our innermost selves until death?


Sold to: HarperCollins (UK)
Laffont (France)
De Bezige Bij (Netherlands)
PP Forlag (Norway)

Rights: Toby Eady Associates

Some info on hunting with Natasha in her own words. About half way down the page it is in english. Click here.

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delineating her apprenticeship as a big game hunter in Kenya.

The quality control in the media is really impressive...

If she's good I'll hunt with her. Like it or not guys, ladies are not the weaker sex, plus they are 2 or 3 steps ahead of us at all times. Dave

I have had a copy of Illum Berg's book "Tea on the Blue Sofa" for about nine months but still haven't read it. Must do this week.

I believe it is mostly a love story with her married boyfriend being murdered.

"Rivers of Red Earth" is her other book, about her hunting career and life. Still not translated into English!

42 day foot safari!!!
Whoee!! Not for evrybody that is for sure.
She would have to qualify anyone considering this fitness wise and mentally.
6 weeks one on one would try anyone's patience and personality.
I can't imagine there are many of these carried out each season and the cost?
Don't know whether I could go without a cold beer for 6 weeks? Always said a comfortable camp has a hot shower and cold beer.
APB

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I started this, but lets remain gentlemen. Which I am sure you are Lawndart.

My girlfriend says I act like a gentleman, but that I am hard bitten and even iron hearted at times.

What thought I remembered from seeing Natasha's pictures before was that she had a pretty face and hard eyes. Looking this time, her eyes don't seem so hard to me.

42 days in the bush. As a boy from Chicago I had no conception of that. In the light infantry and special forces especially you learn to thrive out there, as so many of our colleagues know. After 42 days you don't really want to come back indoors. And the hunting turns into a job (but a good job).

lawndart

Who is her booking agent from whom I can dicover blocks hunted, time of year, costs, etc.?

Nothing like walking for four fortnights for eland backstraps and elephant tails.

Thaks,

lawndart

I was wondering the same thing. Ray said he knew her maybe he is or knows.

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What thought I remembered from seeing Natasha's pictures before was that she had a pretty face and hard eyes. Looking this time, her eyes don't seem so hard to me.

lawndart

You'd have hard eyes too if you lost someone.

Sometimes they go away.


Okie John

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You'd have hard eyes too if you lost someone.

Sometimes they go away.


Okie John

I know,

not for a long time.

Natasha has no booking agent persay, she worked for TGT at the time...She no longer PHs as far as I know and is residing in Switzerland I think...

The last time I saw her Pierre van Tonder, Hammish Manning and I had supper with her at an open air resturant in Dar Es Salaam..

I told her that were I 30 years younger and single I would have slayed Pierre, Hammish and ALL the young fools around her and taken her to my lair...she said, in that lovely English accent, that were I 10 years younger I would not have to slay the fools, she would have gone of her own regard..

Thus ended the soap opera of two lost souls in the wilderness to find there seperate ways, ain't that a bitch!

On the real side Natasha is a cool lady, I liked her from the moment I met her, she shook hands like a man and took no nonsence from her PH piers..A great lady and a class act.

Not that it matters much but those that wish to know, Natasha lives in a small self-built cottage about 20 kms out of Arusha on the slopes of Mt. Meru. There she writes and lives, alone

She freelances as a ph using any company that will give her the hunt she wants for her clients but these are few and far in between.

As already noted by other posters, she has quite a reputation as a no-nonsense kind of girl

Bwanamich,
I knew she live there at one time, but thought she had move back to Europe?

I am confused as the publishing company (I guess) bio says she was born 1971 and apprenticed as a big game hunter in Kenya as Kenya closed hunting in the 70's damn she was a young apprentice.

She apprenticed as a PH in Tanzania. Her first book is about those years - that is the book mentioned about not translated to English.

Regards,
Martin