Between the Congo River and the White Nile, Ltd - Hardcover
Between the Congo River and the White Nile are magic words to Tony Sánchez-Ariño. For him, they name a fabled part of Central Africa that has inspired his dreams of wild lands where he and other hunters and explorers had an unlimited horizon for their activities. In Tony's new book, Between the Congo River and the White Nile, he takes us to those remote corners of the old Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now DRC), Gabon, Sudan, Uganda, Ubangi-Shari (C.A.R.), and, although not in the same geographical area as the others, Somalia where he hunted in Oltre Giuba, which spreads out from the Juba River to Somalia's border with Kenya. These countries cover the heart of Africa, and this vast area truly was a paradise for hunters and explorers until the 1980s. Unfortunately, times have changed radically from when Tony first began to hunt in Africa in the 1950s. Political problems and rampant, nonstop poaching are the norm these days. When the "Winds of Change" took away everything, only malignant forces, the forces for evil, were left: poaching and the destruction of all wildlife and their habitat, political turbulence, government irresponsibility, corruption, and insecurity on all levels. Tony has had a lifetime of hunting experiences since he wet his feet for the first time in the Congo and White Nile Rivers, but his memories are still very much alive. He remembers everything as if it had happened yesterday. In 1959 southern Sudan had marvelous hunting, for there were amazing quantities of wild animals even on the outskirts of Juba, the capital. One needed only to cross the White Nile from the left to the right bank, which Tony did by using a ferry called the Atbara. On taking the highway north to Mongalla, Tony saw hartebeests and oribis so abundant he thought them to be a plague. The years have only added to Tony's repertoire of adventures, and this new tome contains the reminiscences of some of his best-ever exploits and escapades.
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- PublisherSafari Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1571574425
- ISBN 13 9781571574428
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages2
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BETWEEN THE CONGO RIVER AND THE WHITE NILE: WITH NOTES ON ANGOLA, CAMEROON, CHAD, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, GABON, GUINEA-CONAKRY, RWANDA, SOMALIA, AND URUNDI. By Tony Sanchez-Arino. Classics in African Hunting series volume 80.
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2014). 2015 1st edition. 8vo (163 x 244mm). Ppxxxviii,330. Colour and b/w photographs, maps. Red cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt. Red slip-case. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Fine new copy in slipcase. Signed by the author. Numbered copy from a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Tony Sanchez-Arino recalls his big game hunting adventures in the remotest corners of Central Africa including the old Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now DRC), Gabon, Sudan, Uganda, Ubangi-Shari (C.A.R.), and, although not in the same geographical area as the others, Somalia. Chapters include:- The Nile and the Central African Savanna buffaloes; The Derby eland; A little respect for the poor buffaloes; The lost triangle of the Ubangi-Shari; The old patriarch; The Ashong disaster; A hellish experience with Nile lechwe; Karpeto; In the northeast of the Belgian Congo; Operation Gangala-na-Bodio; The 'deaf' leopard; In the middle of nowhere; In green Uganda; Some characters I have met in Uganda; In my lost Sudan; Hunting in the last corner of Africa; Gorillas; The dwarf or red forest buffalo; Other animals of the equatorial forest; Sitatunga; In the unknown land of Gabon; Chasing elephants in the Ituri forest; The other side of the moon; The dwarf buffaloes of Sangha; Hunted but not deserved; The elephant with a toothache; Epilogue. . Seller Inventory # 49155
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