Safari

This is the first Tony Park Africa book I´ve read and slots in nicely with Wilbur Smith and even Willard Price. It´s a modern, knowing, fast-moving take on the tried and tested African adventure novel tropes but still manages to be fresh in places. The author obviously loves the countries and countr......more

My first Tony Park book and I really enjoyed it. As someone who’s in love with African wildlife, culture and the landscape, though also aware of the challenges and the issues faced by the locals, this had everything. Monitoring and conservation of Lycaon Pictus (painted wolf - African wild dog), mou......more

Having grown up in Southern Africa, it was refreshing to experience how Park had captured the essence of Africa. He paints an alarming and vivid picture of poaching - depiction of the ongoing wildlife war. From present day Zimbabwe through the steaming jungles of the Congo, the reader is swept along......more