Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild - Softcover

Hendry, James

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9781770103382: Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770103384 ISBN 13: 9781770103382

Publisher: Pan Macmillan SA, 2018

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Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild is the tale of a second year at Sasekile Private Game Reserve for Angus MacNaughton, his brother Hugh and the melange of outlandish characters who staff and visit the lodge.

Angus’s weekly journal recounts a positive beginning to the year for the MacNaughton bro thers: fastidious Hugh is in love, running his own camp and on the verge of a promotion. Angus is involved in a romantic liaison, which takes the edge off his customary cynicism, and for the first time in their adult lives, a positive fraternal bond exists between them.

Inevitably, reality comes calling. Angus’s love affair ends and he copes poorly, Hugh becomes stratospherically arrogant on the back of a promotion and Julia, the MacNaughtons’ sister, starts dating Angus’s nemesis – Alistair ‘The Legend’ Jones. Then there are a series of further ‘hiccups’, from demanding lodge guests and marauding monkeys, to a labour protest, a run-in with a blind-drunk head chef, a winter drought, a rogue elephant that puts staff and guests in danger and the resignation of the sterling head ranger.

You are guaranteed to be entertained by the hilarious antics and hard knocks as well as the fierce beauty of the African landscape in Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild.

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About the Author:

James Hendry spent ten years working at exclusive lodges in southern Africa. He worked as a ranger, ranger trainer, head ranger, land manager, lodge manager, researcher and entertainer. In 2006 James co-authored the non-fiction bestseller Whatever You Do,

Review:

'A Year in the Wild is a delight to read [and a] hugely entertaining novel. Don't miss it. If there's a sequel, and I hope there is, I will be first in line to read it.' - BRIAN JOSS, Bolander

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