White Hunters

Brian Herne''s White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure danger and romance.East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands desert and mountain is as Isak Dinesen wrote of unequalled nobility.White Hunters re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan who walked 4000 miles for the love of a woman and Dinesen''s dashing lover Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking infatuated with risk and careless in love they inspired Hemingway''s stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.