NIGEL and CORONA: A FAMILY STORY OF ADVENTURE, SPORT, WILDERNESS AND WAR FROM ENGLAND TO AFRICA. By David Thornycroft.

(2009) 2010 new edition. Pp108. B/w illustrations by Corona Thornycroft. Quarter bound in leather and pictorial brown buckram.

"Nigel and Corona - a Story of Adventure, Sport, Wilderness and War from England to Africa." A colourful and vivid portrait of Nigel and Corona Thornycroft, born into privileged English backgrounds, who, following the Second World War, emigrated to pioneer a tobacco, cattle and game farm under difficult and somewhat eccentric conditions in Southern Rhodesia. Filled to the brim with stories, anecdotes and tales of a world most of us could hardly imagine; spearfishing in the Zambezi valley, humorous and deadly adventures with Googly the hippo and a vengeful buffalo, discovering important archaeological remains and San rock paintings, Nigel and Corona shared a passion for life and adventure. Based on their beautifully kept game books, diaries, memoirs, and further interviews with family and friends, 'Nigel and Corona' is an incredible story of independence, courage and fortitude, full of colourful descriptions of a life in Africa through times of great social and political upheaval. This handsome leather-backed volume is available singly, or as a two-volume set in a cloth slip-case together with 'Fowler's Moon', Nigel's account of East Anglian wildfowling which became an icon to post-war generations of wildfowlers. Either book may be bought individually for GBP 60.00 or in a less expensivepaperback edition at GBP 19.95 each or GBP 36.00 for the pair.