AFRICAN HUNTING BOOK REVIEWS

A Game Warden's Report   

This is a hard-hitting book that will - without any shadow of a doubt - be
welcomed by hunters everywhere...It outlines the many dangers that threaten wildlife throughout Africa at the start of the Third Millennium and offers new, fully articulated and innovative - some will say revolutionary - solutions to Africa's wildlife problems that will work if they are applied....

...The prickly nettle that society-at-large still needs to grasp is that most of Africa's wildlife resources are not sustainable. They are not sustainable because many of the wildlife management practices being applied to wildlife populations are totally inappropriate - or because there is no management being applied at all. They are not sustainable because the wildlife policies being followed do not take into account the realities of present day circumstances in Africa. They are not sustainable because few governments are looking far enough ahead and bringing into operation now policies that will take into account the probable and continually escalating poverty circumstances of Africa's rural human populations over the next several decades. And Africa's rural populations are doubling their numbers every 20 years! ...All of Africa's wildlife-based tourism industries are constructed upon a very unstable foundation. 

There isn't anybody who loves wildlife and/or who works with wildlife, in Africa, therefore, who can afford not to have this book on their bookshelves - MC de Jager, South Africa

The New Age Hunter   

The Washing of the Spears   

I just finished reading "The Washing of the Spears". It was a great history of the Zulu Nation. The English made many an error in their assumptions about the Zulu leaders and the habits of the people (not to mention greed and personal ambition) and in the end destroyed the Nation. On the other hand, if left to their own in Zululand, one wonders if the Zulus could have peacefully co-existed with their neighbors in an encroaching modern world. If they could not have learned to reform from their cruel and warlike ways, most certainly they would have been similarly broken by annihilation - Kinsey Robinson: Washington DC, USA

Where Elephants Go to Die
   

Dedicated to professional hunters and their staff, this book consists 100 original poems and 30 illustrations by some of the best wildlife artists in the world such as Kobus Moller, Eric Forlee and Andrew Bone.