Just recieved email that Ian Nyschens' new book “Footprints of an Ivory Hunter†is now available from www.zimbibooks.com. I was going to put this on my Christmas list, but may just have to treat myself to an early gift.
Doug
Posts: 13 | Location: South Central PA | Registered: 17 November 2004
Get your orders in fast! Ian only had 500 printed. I saw him yesterday and doubt he will last till Christmass. Bedridden and so thin I can pick him up with one hand. If there were any copies available locally I would be getting him to sign a pile but sadly he has not been able to get many bought up.
Posts: 3026 | Location: Zimbabwe | Registered: 23 July 2003
I'm sorry to hear that Ganyana. Though I've never met him, he sounds like one of the best. Terrible shame to hear he's in such bad health. If you see him again, please let him know there are a lot of folks around the world that are sending their best wishes and prayers to him. May he not suffer long.
Posts: 1508 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 09 August 2002
My understanding is Ian is hanging in there although I do not have up to the minute information. We have agreed to buy a lot of Ian’s new book, Footsteps of an Ivory Hunter, which will be in the USA early in the new year. We do not expect to list it in our catalog as there are too few for the catalog and it will lead to endless calls of people seeking one. It will be on our web site. We will not take orders till the books land here safely. Book is 8.5x11, coated pages, photos, 254pp.
In the mean time we have also just completed the third printing of Months of the Sun, this time on coated paper, and with corrections as indicated by Ian. It will start shipping in mid December.
Since I published MOS I have learned so much more about Ian that I have to say that it would be fair to rank him as one of the 10 best ivory hunters of all times from Africa. He is a natural story teller like Elmer Keith was and in his case the truth is stranger than fiction. The only other living hunter that is in his class is Fred Everett who wrote Heath, Thirst and Ivory which is now OP and who’s second book, Tuskers in the Dust, will appear in print in the spring of 2007.
Ludo Wurfbain Safari Press
Posts: 51 | Location: California | Registered: 12 June 2006
Ludo. If you are making a list of buyers, put me on it.....if so I will send you a private e-m with my full name and address....will you have Months In The Sun at Dallas? I noticed it was on back order. Thanks
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all." Theodore Roosevelt
Bill in the Wild, so far I do not know how many copies we are getting. Send your e-mail address to info@safaripress.com and put your name and ads in it and write “add me to your e mail list†on it. I will promise to send you a notification once available. Whatever we will have will sell out in 60 days or less. This is not a sales pitch. Yes we will have MOS in Dallas at the SP/Outdoor Visions booth. I personally think this is by far the best printing of MOS yet. Paper better than the last edn and this it is corrected, albeit the corrections are minor. Personally I have read MOS three times and I am sure I will read it 3 more times. It is unbelievable.
Posts: 51 | Location: California | Registered: 12 June 2006
I am in the process of reading the book now. It is excellent so far.
My wife opened the package that the book came in and almost had a heart attack when she saw the invoice total... R825 I had to explain to her that R825 was only approximately $110 US.
Hmmm... maybe I can explain my next rifle purchase the same way!
Mike Chamberlain
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Posts: 96 | Location: Idaho | Registered: 17 June 2002
Ian is out of hospital, but still barely able to walk. He was never a big man and is certainly very thin and frail now. No one could ever call him a quitter!
Posts: 3026 | Location: Zimbabwe | Registered: 23 July 2003
