LIFE ON THE EDGE: TRISTAN VOORSPUY'S FATAL LOVE OF AFRICA. By Adrian Dangar.

2023 1st edition. 8vo paperback (152 x 234mm). Ppxvi,216. Colour and b/w photograph plates, map.

"Once described by Joanna Lumley as 'the man with no fear', Tristan Voorspuy spent his life living up to the legend. From his epic Cairo to Cape Town motorbike ride, to extraordinary wildlife encounters and many death-defying light aircraft near misses [this book] tells the extraordinary story story of an adventurer and horseman determined to live life to the full. This was a life defined by a love of Africa, often shared with appreciative clients on offbeat riding safaris, famous for life-changing adventure and innumerable close shaves with dangerous big game. In the last two decades of his life, Voorspuy helped transform the overgrazed and drought-blighted Sosian Ranch in Northern Kenya into a celebrated game reserve, acclaimed tourist destination and successful cattle ranch. True to form, it was while defending this property that an unarmed Tristan was gunned down and killed, a murder that sent shockwaves around the world."