Title: Safari : a chronicle of adventure /
Authors: Bull, Bartle.
Publisher: Viking ; Viking Penguin,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Safaris Africa.; Hunting Africa History.; Hunting History.; Safaris History.; Africa Description and travel.
Abstract: The story of 150 years of the ulimate adventure, from the first safari in 1836, as Cornwallis Harris walked across Transvaal with his double-barrelled rifle and ox-wagon, discovering the hunter's Garden of Eden, to the last of the great professional hunters, as they struggle today to carry on their tradition in the swamps of Tanzania and the high forests of Ethiopia. Safari examines the ethics of hunting and the apparent dilemma of the hunter-conservationists. Against a backdrop of tribal, colonial and wildlife history, it documents developments in weapons and transport, in game control and conservation, and it reveals the attraction that has never changed, the magical freedom, beauty and excitement of the African bush.
Contents: The witchcraft of the desert: the first safari, 1836 -- The old Africa hands: the early white hunters, 1840-60 -- "I mean to be like Livingstone": Frederick C., Selous -- Cameras, cordite and women: changes on safari -- Bwana Tumbo: Theodore Roosevelt on safari -- Nairobi: home port -- Vintage years: 1919-39 -- Haggard, Hemingway and Hollywood: the safari in fiction and film -- The chase goes on: 1946-88 -- Breaking camp: Tanzania, 1987.