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HURUNGWE by Trevor Heath (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
“Imagine
yourself. Your vehicle overturned by an angry elephant, the tantrum of which
you escaped by a hair’s breadth. You are unarmed, with no food and water, and
lost in one of the remotest arid valleys of the African wilderness,…
ZAMBEZI VALLEY, THE LOST STRONGHOLD by Silvana Olivo (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
This is an important book.
Operation Stronghold. Initiated in 1984 to protect the
endangered black rhinoceroses of the Zambezi Valley against cross-border
poaching incursions by Zambian gangs in the employ of powerful cartels in
Lusaka,…
National Parks and Wildlife Management, Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, 1928-1990 by Mike Bromwich (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
Rhodesia
(later Zimbabwe) probably had the African continent’s flagship Game Department
for almost half a century. Zimbabwean national parks like Hwange, Gonarezhou
and Matusadona remain prime, untamed African wilderness even today. In…