The Last Savanna

Name: The Last Savanna
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mike Bond
ISBN: 9781536674897

Author: Mike Bond

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 03/07/2017

Categories: Fiction, Political

Synopsis

"One of the most realistic portrayals of Africa yet." - Yahoo ReviewsWith Africa's last elephants dying under the poachers' guns, Kenya rancher and former SAS officer Ian MacAdam leads a commando squad against them. Pursuing the poachers through jungled mountains and searing deserts he battles thirst, solitude, terror and lethal animals, only to find that the poachers have kidnapped a young archaeologist, Rebecca Hecht, whom he once loved and bitterly lost.McAdam embarks upon a desperate trek to save not only Rebecca but his own soul in an Africa torn apart by wars, overpopulation, and the slaughter of its last wildlife. Based on the author's experiences pursuing elephant poachers in the wilds of East Africa.

About Mike Bond

Mike Bond is a bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist, award-winning poet, and international energy expert. He has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote, and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of politics and multinational corporations, and the magical beauty of the vanishing natural world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jacqui on August 10, 2017

Mike Bond's The Last Savanna (Mandevilla Press 2013) is one of the most darkly beautiful books you will ever read. If it were non-fiction, you'd consider him a nature writer of the caliber of Matthiesen but more dystopian. Read these snippets: "Like malaria, Africa. Once bitten you can never shake it......more

Goodreads review by Gina on February 09, 2014

"The Last Savanna" by Mike Bond is described as an existential thriller with environmental elements and a major focus on the extreme lengths we go to for love. Immediately I was swept up in the eloquent yet articulate prose, which at times delved deep into my being to touch upon experiences I have h......more

Goodreads review by Glen on November 08, 2020

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. A book with a definite 70's vibe. A former SAS guy is living in Kenya, bored with his life on the ranch. His wife has turned into a bitter alcoholic. They're both just going through the motions. When an old friend recruits him to go after ivory poachers from Som......more

Goodreads review by Yigal on January 10, 2023

it is a must read first - because the subject. Africa. second - because there that are really beautiful and poetic, which is a rear thing in thrillers. Bond doing something very unique- he is not judging. he lets us to decide who is the good guys and who are the bad ones. if there are bad ones? some......more

Goodreads review by Star on March 27, 2024

Thank you Mandevilla Press for allowing me to read and review The Last Savanna on NetGalley. Published: 08/15/13 Stars: 4.5 Amazing. This is the story that block buster movies are made from. I was shocked to see this was published in 2013. This is for smart people. The synopsis says it all and I'm in......more