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White African Memoirs
White African Memoirs
Reviewed by Brooke ChilversLubin
While politically correct critics sit around arguing whether or not White Africans are entitled to their say, gifted writers with singular voices pay tribute to their families and farms, recalling vanished childhoods in a vanished country called Southern Rhodesia.
Zimbabwe by Lincoln Hughes
Zimbabwe by Lincoln Hughes
Reviewed by Brooke ChilversLubin
I’ve never met big-game hunter Lincoln Hughes. But whenever his stories for ‘AHG’ arrive, I know we’re in for intelligence, attention to detail, style, and a chuckle.
With a Gun in Good Country
With a Gun in Good Country
by Ian Manning
Reviewed by Brooke ChilversLubin
Some books are relevant for only a year or so after publication. Others can be enjoyed years, decades, even generations later.
Ian Manning’s ‘old-fashioned bush memoir’ of his years as a cropping ranger, professional hunter, and wildlife biologist in Southern and Central Africa, published by Trophy Room Books in 1995, is one of the latter.
Winds of Havoc – a Memoir of Adventure and Destruction In Deepest Afric
Winds of Havoc – a Memoir of Adventure and Destruction In Deepest Afric
by PH Adelino Serras Pires
Reviewed by Brooke ChilversLubin
This is the story of PH Adelino Serras Pires – a white African if there ever was one.
I love love. Especially between a man and a woman, both of whom I love. I love love even more when it results in a collaboration that realizes a dream. And most of all, I love love when that dream is a book.
Kambaku!
Kambaku!
By PH Harry Manner
Reviewed by Brooke ChilversLubin
Twenty years ago I arrived at Kruger National Park’s Skukuza airport for a symposium on black rhino. Little did I know that the no longer young khaki-uniformed gentleman pulling bags off the conveyor belt was none other than Harry Manners.
Ivory's Ghost - The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
Ivory's Ghost - The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
By John Frederick Walker
Reviewed by Brooke ChilversLubin
With so many colleagues and acquaintances in common, it took only a moment to break the ice with author, conservationist and artist John Frederick Walker in the oak-panelled lobby bar of New York's Algonquin Hotel.
Read more: Ivory's Ghost - The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants