reitnauer robert (3 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Signed Limited Edition in slipcase 752/1000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No. 789 of a Limited Edition of 1,000. Royal octavo, [26cm/1025inches], full gilt-embossed sylvan-green cloth w/ matching slipcase pp. x, 322. Illustrated with numerous b-w halftones and pen & ink sketches. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . The publisher;s blurb notes: "Reitnauer writes in his book the combination of clarity and poetry about Africa and its animals. His description of the land, its vegetation and light demonstrates his writer's heart. Of a buffalo coming at them "with head high and bamboo pieces hanging from the crook of its horns," when the rifle shot hit its mark, "our old friend's time in the forest was over." Of an aged elephant, "The good tusk stuck out of its ancient, emaciated face like a stained, smooth tree branch." . Between safaris, Reitnauer learned about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya first-hand, and these are mesmerizing pages. Indeed, his father had predicted Africa's future: "Millions will migrate from one slaughter to another, and anything white will have to join other wandering whites searching for a place to live." Perhaps too soon, Reitnauer acquired a first wife (and later a second one) and three children. In addition to a baby elephant, he added a pet cheetah "with the snobbery of a king, the charm of a charismatic lover, and the speed of a world-class sprinter," while his father handled the correspondence with safari clients.".

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. 323 pp, ill. Son of an avid big game hunter in East Africa, Rietnauer grew up in the African bush learning everything he could about the big game and their habitat. He was both a hunter and a naturalist and his book provides an interesting view of the big game hunting sphere in Kenya & Tanzania. Limited to 1,000 signed, numbered slipcased copies. As new.