When the last story of Africa has been written and the lion has laid down with the lamb, someone will adjudge the true place of teh white hunter, a figure romantic in fiction and fascinating in fact...for these are the men with the highest code of professional begaviour...they accept responsibility for the safety of their clients and yet guarantee excitement without danger. Thrills without spills, sport without risk. They own too a responsibility to the animal they seek to hunt, with camera and gun.

Only someone with lifelong love of Africa, someone with the tremendous ability to focus on history and the present, someone wi9th extraordinary ability to write, only someone like Jan Hemsing, could have tied it all together to produce ENCOUNTERS WITH LIONS.