White Hunters
The Golden Age of African Safaris

My first thought when I read this book was that I have a quiet life. I mean, I've never shot a charging lion point blank, then had it crawl all over me, maul me, and die right on top of me. On second thought, maybe it's a good thing I have a boring life. This book is about different men traveling to......more

This book proved the best of all I read for research of my latest thriller/adventure 'Big Jim.' The author himself was a professional hunter and game warden, and brings to light many details of this profession like how the name 'Great White Hunter' was coined, and who the person(s) were. He also bri......more

Loved this book about white hunters through the years on safaris in Africa. Sad that poaching, political upheaval and overpopulation have done away with the one thing that protected and helped the animals survive and that was the white hunters and the safaris.......more

I was actually really annoyed by this book. It gets three stars only because it is a reasonable road map to further studies on the subject. But this isn't history. This is a series of book reports. It consists entirely of anecdotes culled from the memoirs of hunters, travelers and tourists, and brin......more

This is not a hunting book in the typical sense. Rather, it is a brief history, or series of brief life sketches, about the lives of "white hunters" in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, etc.). It gives significant insight into the cultural elite of......more