I am going back to Africa this August on safari for the 7th time. I have PHC, TR, Ruark and Hemingway in that order to either curse or thank for all the money and time I have spent and will spend on these trips. There is nothing in the outdoors world to compare being in dangerous game county. Africa is a hard world of poverty, violence and death for all animals from humans on down.It always has been. But, when a buffalo snorts and alerts the herd and they shuffle off in cloud of red dust just as you raise your rifle or while sitting by the evening fire, you hear the roar of the lion not too far off in the darkness you stop as you raise a cold sweating gin to your lips and you think- this is why I am here. Only the hunter not the hunted can conjure up these abstract notions of time and place. These writers are the ones who spun that gossamer veneer of romance on Africa. Capstick could spin it better than most...
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