African Adventures and Misadventures

African Adventures and Misadventures
Author: William York
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1571574840

Bill York, who recently passed away, once said, “Most guiding for big game is pretty unadventuresome work.” However, when there is excitement, it comes in spades, and Bill York had his share of unusual encounters. From his early days in Kenya when he and a companion trekked alone through the desert of the NFD and had to fend off marauding lions that ate his caravan ponies to encountering a Mau Mau terrorist who took potshots at his victims with a stolen elephant gun, York gives an entertaining account of his life. York was there when the RAF bombed the rain forest to rid Kenya of the dreaded Mau Mau, and he explains how the bombing went awry—very few Mau Mau were killed but plenty of wounded and dangerously short-tempered buffalo were left to wreck havoc in the countryside. He gives an insider’s view to the funny and outrageous behavior of some his famous acquaintances--Eric Rundgren, Ken Dawson, Frank Broadbent, and Iodine Ionides. PH Eric Rundgren, for example, was so interested in getting himself good elephant tusks that he would scout out the best tuskers for himself and guide his clients to less desirable trophies! There are stories about how York found a cache of rhino and elephant ivory that J. A. Hunter had stashed before his death, and how John Boyes managed to exasperate British authorities with his dastardly deeds. There is an entire chapter on hunting giant forest hogs because Bill York spent a lot of time in their habitat, and there are encounters and adventures with crop-raiding elephant and ghost buffalo that could be seen but not killed. Then there is the story of a client who was so huge that York was not sure he could get the man a single trophy. As with York’s previous book, the pages are loaded with interesting anecdotes, fascinating tales, and well-written prose that give insight into East Africa and its more famous characters.

African Adventures

African Adventures
Author: Dick Anderson
Publisher: Christian Focus
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781857928075

Incredible stories from the missionary frontier in Africa. Read about lions, hyenas, crocodiles, and snakes as well as the human beings who live and work alongside them.

The Mzuzu House

The Mzuzu House
Author: Gene Meacham
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-11-23
Genre: Missionaries
ISBN: 9781512700220

"Mzuzu house is an autobiographical account of our adventures and misadventures through the last part of our missionary term in Africa, and, as in The Limbe House, I tell our story through the Montgomery family: David, Katherine, and thier three daughters, Brittany, Alicia, and Megan."--Note from the author.

Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik

Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik
Author: Marie Javins
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0786747935

Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles. Author and world traveler Marie Javins is an unflappable narrator, who takes even the most bizarre and patience-trying situations with a dose of good humor. Javins fell in love with Africa when she traversed the continent in 2001 as part of a larger world tour. She later returned to spend half of 2005 revisiting the people and places that had so impacted her on her first trip. Javins was struck not by the desperation of Africa, but by its hope — the dignity of its people, the vibrancy of its cities, and the inherent adventure that is inherent it offered. Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a funny and compassionate account of the sort of lively and heedless undertaking that could only happen in Africa. Javins's brushes with wildlife are punctuated with more serious dilemmas. Through it all, Javins's experience of Africa is life-altering, and her witty observations make for the best kind of travel literature which takes its readers into the heart and soul of the continent.

An African Adventure

An African Adventure
Author: F. Isaac Marcosson
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781437856446