Just finished this book as well - very good and fun to read. He was an amazing guy and very articulate. He writes in a very easy, flowing style and is fun to read. I am ready to get his other two books.

Wonderful book. I just couldn't get over his description of the rhino culling and thorn thickets they inhabited. Well, at least I couldn't appreciate those thorns until I went to Zim and had to fight my way through this:

IMHO, JA Hunter deserves much more attention that he received while alive, and now. Got an original copy w/tattered dust jacket. Still looking for his other book.

Rich
DRSS

Great book. I got a taste of it as a kid from a readers digest condensed book (they condensed 4 or 5 books into one hardbound and my parents had quite a collection).

I ordered a new copy from Amazon along with his other book. I've read Hunter twice now, and will start on his other one shortly.

He was an amazing chap.

Keith

That is my favourite book definitely. I've read it more times that I can remember and read it maybe once in a year nowadays. That book has some of the best descriptions of African hunting ever written and also describes the historical changes in the East African societies in the first half of the 20th century in an interesting way. J.A. Hunter is my hero

I read the condensed version when young (over 45 years ago) and loved it.

Have all four of his now and are favourites.

Hunter remains one of my favorite African authors. Also look for African Hunter, and Hunter's Tracks.

A great read, a great guy. The loss of his license and how he dealt with it proved his strength of character as well as the idiocy and venality of African governments.

Idiocy and venality of African governments are perennial.

A friend gave me a copy of Hunter that she picked up in a garage sale for a buck, published in 1952. It is a great read. Read it last year and I'll likely pick it up before the year is out and read it again.

How about that. I must have read the condensed version hundreds of times as a kid, and it may be reason I got to Africa to hunt. It still have the Reader's Digest book, and have scanned and made a copy of the great painting showing him shooting the Mauser out of the window of the train. Bob

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Originally posted by jetdrvr:
Idiocy and venality of African governments are perennial.

If you want to read a bit more about African government mentality (or lack thereof) get a copy of Adelino Serras Pires' book, Winds of Havoc. An excellent read.

I bought this book at a gun show for $5 when my son "Hunter" was born as the name of the book caught my attention. Since then I've read it many times and still enjoy it every time. J A Hunter tells a story in every chapter of this book that captures your attention and is full of the details when he needs to be. He was an amazing man. I only wish that I could have met him when he was alive!

Yeah, Bill, I have it and you're right.