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Fred Everett Heat, Thirst, & Ivory
SAFARI PRESS 1571572910 / 9781571572912 Hardcover BOOK
Known as one of the last great professional ivory hunters still alive today, Everett has been called "truly one of the last grand characters of the African bush.? Vol. 38 in Classics in African Hunting Series. Illus. by J. Enrique Lacuesta Bone. Line drawings; 8x11 inches, 285 pgs.
'Fred Everett was born & grew up in the northern territories of what was then known as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, a place renowned even today for its game. His backyard was the Chobe & the Okavango Swamps, where Everett was free to roam & where he learned to hunt with an old 7x57mm Mauser. As Everett says, "So I began my career as a hunter in November 1932. Unable to adjust to the world among my own people or even a life at home, I shed the trappings of civilization like a python sloughing its skin. I moved into the bush among the animals that accepted me in my role of predator. Elephants were the only lucrative animals to hunt. As I would be poaching, I would have to be selective & take on the largest ivory, for I could not afford to draw attention to my activities by leaving too many carcasses strewn around." Frederick William Everett is known as one of the last great professional ivory hunters still alive today. In fact Peter Capstick once said of Fred Everett, "He is truly one of the last grand characters of the African bush." During his long hunting career, he hunted in Bechuanaland, Southern Rhodesia & the Wankie Game Reserve, Mozambique, & Sudan, shooting scores of elephants. An unusual life & a great story; in fact, we've had customers call us to say that Heat, Thirst, & Ivory is the best safari book they have ever read. This is volume 38 in Safari Press' Classics in African Hunting Series. Illus. by J. Enrique Lacuesta Bone.
Line drawings; 8x11 inches, 285 pgs.
Vol. 38 in Classics in African Hunting Series.
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36.40 USD
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Fred Everett Tuskers In The Dust
SAFARI PRESS 1571572406 / 9781571572400 BOOK
The legend continues; makes his living off the bush, poaching elephants. Illustrated w/ period photos & drawings this book; has frozen in time a history of Africa & its most illustrious characters like no other before it. Limitation Ltd. edn. of 500 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. Photos; 8.5x11 inches, 350 pgs. : 25%.
'The legend continues. We learned in Heat, Thirst, and Ivory, that Fred had left his home in Bechuanaland (Botswana) when he was only a teenager to make his living off the bush, mainly by poaching elephant. In this second volume, we pick up his story in 1937, just as he starts out from Bulawayo on a series of elephant-hunting adventures that are nothing short of extraordinary. Taking his favorite .404, Everett finds a remote corner along the Zambezi River near Binga and starts shooting elephants to earn a living. With a single elephant license in his pocket, he shoots dozens of elephants, which means he frequently needs to move to avoid the district commissioner. Acquiring a massive cache of ivory and rhino horn, he manages to return to Bulawayo where he hides his loot . . . only to be betrayed! Luckily, he has an Angolan hunting license, which he uses to explain the ivory. After this scrape with the authorities, he returns to the bush, this time to guide a visiting Frenchman to lion and leopard. However, the temptation to follow the spoor of the gray giants is too great, so he moves to the Okavango with his two loyal trackers, where he manages to shoot another large cache of ivory. Next he focuses his attention on Zambia, where he finds elephant hunting is good but runs into some bad characters. When he finally returns with his ivory, WWII has started and the bottom has dropped out of the ivory market in the British territories. Not able to finance his endeavors and finding fuel for his truck hard to get because of rationing, he finally finds a way to make a decent living by shooting buffalo in Zambia near Kafue for their hides (for leather) to aid the war effort. However, buffalo are not elephants, and after a while he tries his luck in Mozambique where he acquires a 10.75 Mauser and starts to hunt elephant anew. He has some hair-raising adventures there because the bullets of his Mauser fail to penetrate the skulls of the elephant reliably. The Portuguese trade in ivory is better, and he can sell his ivory along the coast. In due course he meets all the famous elephant hunters of his time: Harry Manners, the famous South African elephant poacher Bvekenya Barnard, and Fletcher-Jaimeson. It has often been said that the days of Walter Bell and James Sutherland are over, which is more than likely true. There still remain, however, a few men in Africa today that had adventures in their youth that are equal to these great ivory hunters, and Fred Everett is such a person. His story of elephant hunting is easily as compelling and just as full of adventure as the ivory hunters of 100 years ago.
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84.50 USD
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