Southern Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa set the scene for this wonderful book. The author shares her adventures, whose heroes are animals.
Between a half scoundrel, half immature husband and the indigenous populations, she takes refuge among lions and other wild animals; at least they do not betray for money!
A plea against safaris where white men further discredit themselves. They come from all over, buy safari licenses, a so-called right to kill animals purely for the pleasure of slaughter. A heartbreaking book, a condemnation of our modern, selfish, individualistic world, thirsty for immediate gain without worrying about the legacy it will leave to its children.
A book that should be republished before it’s too late. A cry, a warning, and an alarm for the preservation of our planet. Ecology has become political, it has strayed into battles contrary to what it should defend, betraying its ideal to conform to fashions and customs far removed from natural law.
This republished book would bring back meaning and direction to true ecology. June Vendall Clark offers us, in a way, a testament and executor of her will, every reader should defend her ideal and protect wild animals, wild?
Perhaps humans are ultimately more savage than these lions, cheetahs, buffalo, and crocodiles, because they kill without reason, simply for the pleasure of making a ‘hit’.
Thierry Jan
