African Experience: A Guide To Modern Safaris by Craig Boddington

African Experience: A Guide To Modern Safaris by Craig Boddington.

Published by Safari Press Inc., 15621 Chemical Lane, Building B, Huntington Beach, CA 92649-1506. 
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Craig Boddington’s name has been indelibly linked with Africa, and writing about African big-game hunting, for many years. He has become North America’s most well-known expert on hunting wild game on the Dark Continent, and he has many safaris under his belt and the experiences needed to write well on this topic.

This is just one of many books Boddington has written about hunting in Africa, and it’s possible that African Experience may be one of his finest  works. No other continent has as many varieties of big game and such diversified terrain as Africa.

It also could be said that no other continent has undergone as much change and upheaval as African over the past 50 years. Here, Boddington takes us through the safari industry as it emerged after World War II, suffered through a decline in the 1970s, and came back into glory over the past two to three decades.

African Experience takes the reader through this renaissance to become the vibrant and vital industry it is today. Read about the day when Kenya offered glorious hunting to the reopening of Chad. It covers all big-game animals, including the Big Five and the much smaller plains game.

It offers detailed information on game such as the antelope, bongo, buffalo, bushbuck, duiker, eland, elephant, greater and lesser kudu, ibex,  leopard, lion, mountain nyala, nyala, oryx, rhino, roan antelope, sable, sitatunga, waterbuck, zebra and many others.

This 302 page, color photo illustrated book is filled with valuable information that can show a prospective hunter how to plan a trip, how to stretch your money wisely, how to plan a successful hunt, what to do and what not to do. There even is a chapter that discusses  “safari manners.”

This title should become the indispensable go-to book, and it presents a great  history of the Africa safari as well as thrilling author anecdotes about hunts. Boddington has spent most of his adult life traveling through Africa, and hunting large and small game with a variety of well-known outfitters and professional hunters.

My advice for anyone contemplating a hunting trip to Africa is to buy this book, and read it thoroughly. Lay it aside for a week or two, read and study it again, and begin planning your hunt of a lifetime. It is as essential to a successful African hunt as a straight-shooting firearm.

Posted via email from Dave Richey Outdoors