Harland, Richard The Hunting Imperative Hardback with dustcover over orginal mid brown boards. Zebra

Hardback with dustcover over orginal mid brown boards. Zebra stripe endpapers.

Richard Harland's extraordinary story is most unusual in that he began his big game hunting at a very young age, shooting his first bufffalo at 14 accompanied only by a tracker. His aim was to become an elephant hunter which he did a year later under the direction of Paul Grobler.

By the following year, Paul was sending him solo on elephant control, and recommended he become appointed as an honourary officer. This the game department did when Richard was 17 and still at school.

Richard realised the days of making a living by ivory hunting were over, and he joined the game department. He was posted to Gonarezhou in the south-eastern lowveld to control elephant and buffalo in the tsetse fly corridors. Years of incredible hunting followed which Richard describes wonderfully, along with many fascinating observations about the people and the environment during these times.

When this period came to an end, Richard spent some time catching damgerous snakes and 'milking them for their valuable venom. He then became a safari operator, guiding clients in the Chirisa, Chete, Dande and Charara Safari Areas.

Richard condensed a lifetime of hunting into two decades. He undoubtedly had a gift or instinct and a passion, for hunting that is unequalled in this profession. He was born to hunt.....

Half Title. Title. Dedication. Place Names. Contents. Acknowledgements. Parochial terms. Foreword by Brain Marsh. Introduction. xiii plus 249 pages text with supporting photographic illustrations.

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ISBN 9780958418874