HOME FROM THE HILL. By Hilary Hook.

(1987) 1987 reprint. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppx,206. B/w photographs. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

The autobiography of an army officer through World War II, afterwards into the Camel Corps in Sudan and then his own safari company in Kenya. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. Chapters include: Don't tell me, I'd rather not not know - the '20's and '30's; An officer and a gentleman, India 1937-1943; Into action, 1943-1945; A time for decisions, the post-war years; The wildest dreams of Kew, Southern Sudan; Hot desert days, chilly nights, Northern Sudan; Honey and onions, the late '50's and early '60's; Safari seasons, Kenya 1964-1984; Epilogue, Home from the Hill.