An African Game Ranger on Safari - Hardcover
Don Cowie is regarded by many as the most knowledgeable non-university trained ecologist in southern Africa. He has lectured at game conventions in the United States, telling the game warden of one of East Africa's best-known national parks that his game management application was outdated and needed critical and fast re-appraisal. He was shoot down by the gentleman in question and gives an explicit account of the ecological disaster he had warned of that shortly followed, a disaster that caused not only considerable mortality of all game species in the park, but of the habitat damage that was the root of it-both of which he had prophesied. Don studied every book and paper on this subject that he could get his hands on, and applied in the field what he had learned, and then had the habitats he worked in as his mentors.So readers of this title will not only be entertained by Don's hunting stories-stories like being charged by two male lions at the same time when he was a professional hunter in Botswana and the old Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)-but will also learn a good deal about game management in Africa's national parks and on the privately owned game ranches of Southern Rhodesia, where he was a game manager for practically his adult life.
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- PublisherRowland Ward Publications
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0958493936
- ISBN 13 9780958493932
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages235
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AN AFRICAN GAME RANGER ON SAFARI. By Don Cowie.
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Rowland Ward. Johannesburg, South Africa. 2006.
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Book Description (Hardcover, 2006 ). 2006 1st edition. Large 4to (220 x 282mm). Ppxii,227. Colour and b/w photographs, maps, photograph end-papers. Dark blue faux leather boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine in dust-wrapper. "Don Cowie is a knowledgeable naturalist who knew the names of all the trees and birds before he left school. He began his working life as an officer with the Southern Rhodesian Department of Customs and Excise, stationed at the Beitbridge border post. Already an experienced hunter, he soon became sought-after by the surrounding cattle ranchers who needed his assistance with problem animal control. There Don gained considerable experience in the hunting down of problem dangerous big game. These were cattle-killing big cats, elephant that damaged water installations, and thirsty buffalo that created right of ownership problems at the drinking troughs. Although the cropping and marketing of the game products like meat and skins for profit was perfectly legal in Southern Rhodesia, sport hunting for profit was not and that include safari hunting. When the Henderson brothers started their own safari company in Botswana, they hired Don as their professional hunter during the six-month safari seasons. During the off-season Don returned to the ranch to continue his game cropping and marketing. This changed in 1967 when sport hunting on a game-ranching permit finally became legal in Zimbabwe after a long fight with the government. At that point the Hendersons moved their safari operation to Southern Rhodesia".subsequently teaming up with Brian Marsh to form Henderson & Marsh Safaris. Chapters include: My early days; Hunting the Limpopo Valley; Preservation or conservation; The nitty-gritty of game ranching; Some game ranching tales; Interesting times; Botswana; Reptilian encounters; My first safari; Behind the scenes; The Art and Sam Weller safari; A tragic suicide; Sitatunga hunting; The most dangerous animal in Africa; Rhinos and orphans; Matabeleland game safaris; The last of Hazel's big five; The advent of Henderson and Marsh safaris; The saga of Henrietta; Farewell to Doddieburn. The book was edited by Brian Marsh who has also contributed the foreword. . Seller Inventory # 18980
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Book Description (Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. Limited issue. Large 4to (225 x 290mm). Ppxii,227. Colour and b/w photographs, maps, photograph end-papers. Blue bonded leather, spine & upper board titled in gilt, in slip-case. Fine in slip-case. Signed and numbered by the author. "Don Cowie is a knowledgeable naturalist who knew the names of all the trees and birds before he left school. He began his working life as an officer with the Southern Rhodesian Department of Customs and Excise, stationed at the Beitbridge border post. Already an experienced hunter, he soon became sought-after by the surrounding cattle ranchers who needed his assistance with problem animal control. There Don gained considerable experience in the hunting down of problem dangerous big game. These were cattle-killing big cats, elephant that damaged water installations, and thirsty buffalo that created right of ownership problems at the drinking troughs. Although the cropping and marketing of the game products like meat and skins for profit was perfectly legal in Southern Rhodesia, sport hunting for profit was not, and that included safari hunting. When the Henderson brothers started their own safari company in Botswana, they hired Don as their professional hunter during the six-month safari seasons. During the off-season Don returned to the ranch to continue his game cropping and marketing. This changed in 1967 when sport hunting on a game-ranching permit finally became legal in Zimbabwe after a long fight with the government. At that point the Hendersons moved their safari operation to Southern Rhodesia .subsequently teaming up with Brian Marsh to form Henderson & Marsh Safaris." Chapters include: My early days; Hunting the Limpopo Valley; Preservation or conservation; The nitty-gritty of game ranching; Some game ranching tales; Interesting times; Botswana; Reptilian encounters; My first safari; Behind the scenes; The Art and Sam Weller safari; A tragic suicide; Sitatunga hunting; The most dangerous animal in Africa; Rhinos and orphans; Matabeleland game safaris; The last of Hazel's big five; The advent of Henderson and Marsh safaris; The saga of Henrietta; Farewell to Doddieburn. The book was edited by Brian Marsh who has also contributed the foreword. . Seller Inventory # 22861
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