White Hunters by Brian Herne

Author:Brian Herne [Herne, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2014-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

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AFRICAN ODYSSEY

In Tanganyika during the 1950s one of the most intriguing reputations belonged to a hunter whom few in the fraternity had actually encountered face to face. He was a true nomad, an elusive rolling stone. Jorge Alves DeLima Filho is a Brazilian, a man possessed of both leading-man good looks and Latin charm. The erudite DeLima is as polished as a prize pistol. He stands well over six feet tall, with dark eyes and a broad mustache. His imposing physical appearance and chiseled features are softened by a ready smile and eager enthusiasm. A cosmopolitan world traveler, Jorge speaks English with only a trace of an accent. In conversation he can slip seamlessly into Italian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. His adventurous years in the heart and vitals of Africa have also left him fluent in more than a dozen African dialects.

DeLima roamed the whole of Africa, incessantly on the move, unable to settle down or stay in one place for long. Jorge mostly preferred to hunt alone. The man genuinely lived to hunt, and he would rather do that than eat or sleep, drink or flirt. His flirtations at that time were mostly with the great continent, Mother Africa herself, the true love of his life.

DeLima traveled with a couple of battered safari vehicles, carrying with him only the barest essential equipment and several trusted African safari hands. Neither distance nor time meant anything to him. Jorge hunted all of East Africa, North Africa’s deserts, Sudan and its mighty sudd swamps, all of Central Africa, most of West Africa, and all of South Africa. And in between he explored Mozambique and Angola, and the Rhodesias as well. He hunted Bechuanaland long before it became Botswana, and long before any of the Kenya hunters moved there and made it a fashionable place to hunt.

There has never been a hunter anywhere in Africa at any time who has even come close to matching his exploits in so many different territories, although there may be two or three who lay dubious claim to such enterprises. DeLima did not merely visit a country or area for a few days or weeks, so that he might include it on his résumé—indeed, he was often there for months at a time, or in some cases years, until he knew the place thoroughly, scouring the remotest corners on foot, dugout, or with his old hunting car.

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