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Elephants and Ivory :True Tales of Hunting and Adventure (Resnick Library of African Adventure)
I would rate this splendid account of colonial era African Safari with the best in the field. John Alfred Jordan, whose tales are told here, did not actually write the book. Instead, the book was written by John Prebble, an author by trade, based upon Jordan’s remembrances some fifty years later. The quality of the writing in this book calls to mind the classic “Out of Africa”. To quote from the book’s final page: “If I regret the passing of my Africa it is a peculiar and personal regret, and one that does not make me bitter. It is the way you are sorry that you can no longer do the things you did in your youth.”
