description: A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most a land largely unmapped, sparsely settled by Europeans, and teeming with wildlife. It was the hunter-adventurer's paradise, and by the early twentieth century a small, lionhearted clan of explorers and big-game hunters began leading safaris there for money. They became the legendary White Hunters, men who led manifold adventurers in pursuit of the world's biggest, most dangerous, and most sought-after game.White Hunters is a nostalgic and densely-packed history of these men and their adventures, from the turn of the century until the 1970s, when politics, a growing population, civil strife, and concern about species destruction intervened.
language: English
title: White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris
titlecomplete: White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris
genres: Africa, Travel, Animals, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 188
publisher: Blackstone Pub