SAFARI GUIDE: A GUIDE TO PLANNING YOUR HUNTING SAFARI.

(2001) 1st edition reprint. Paperback. Pp312. B/w photographs, bibliography.

"It need not cost the price of a new car to go on safari, and Richard Conrad tells you why. ...He covers the 'golden triangle of safari hunting' in Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, and Namibia where 90 percent of today's safaris take place. He also writes about the exotic destinations in East and West Africa for those in search of more adventure. Let others tell the tales of charging baboons and pit vipers, here is a practical, down to earth, fact filled book on what you need to know before you go - guide that will save you thousands of dollars by helping you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls." Chapters include; Professional Hunters, agents and safari companies, paying for the safari, hunting methods, ranch versus concession hunts; plains and bush game, warthog, bushpig, duiker, springbok, klipspringer, dik-dik, bushbuck, reedbuck, grysbok, oribi, steenbok, small cats, impala, reedbuck, blesbok and bontebok, black wildebeest, red hartebeest and sassaby, sitatunga, nyala, greater kudu, sable, gemsbok, roan, waterbuck, blue wildebeest, zebra, the eland, birds; Botswana, Cameroon, CAR, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe; what does a safari cost - clothing and equipment, air travel, the hunt, cost of a standard hut (foreach of the above countries), prices in 1968 versus 2000; documents, insurance, health care; gear and clothing; rifles and ammunition; taxidermyand trophy care; 105 pages giving detailed accounts of safaris by the author in Zimbabwe and South Africa.