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Trophy hunting. Canned hunting. Cecil the lion. Cruelty. Murder. Killing for fun. Ethics. Animal extinction. The emotive campaign slogans of anti-hunters and animal lovers in the West ring loud, but are they based on truth? What really happens on the hunting grounds of Africa? Here is the fascinating and down-to-earth eyewitness account from the African end of the argument, written by an ex-bush trader and prospector from post-war Cornwall who went on the great adventure and travelled the remotest inland parts of Southern Africa, often with nothing more than a gun and a snakebite kit, trading in handicrafts, carvings, animal parts, taxidermy, timber, gemstones, quills, seeds and anything else that would make a living. In deals that ranged from exchanging a handful of antibiotics for tourmalines through a border fence, to trading toe to toe across the middle of the Victoria Falls bridge, to walking through customs with 3500 carats of cut stones in his boots, to shipping 120 tons of handicrafts, animal products and zulu beadwork, and hiring the ballrooms of the New York Hilton to sell it all, he has shot, caught or eaten most things and been involved at every level. If trophy hunting is a subject that upsets you, intreagues you, or maybe you think you know all about it, well ... ... you are in for a very BIG surprise ...Trophy hunting. Canned hunting. Cecil the lion. Cruelty. Murder. Killing for fun. Ethics. Animal extinction. The emotive campaign slogans of anti-hunters and animal lovers in the West ring loud, but are they based on truth? What really happens on the hunting grounds of Africa? Here is the fascinating and down-to-earth eyewitness account from the African end of the argument, written by an ex-bush trader and prospector from post-war Cornwall who went on the great adventure and travelled the remotest inland parts of Southern Africa, often with nothing more than a gun and a snakebite kit, trading in handicrafts, carvings, animal parts, taxidermy, timber, gemstones, quills, seeds and anything else that would make a living. In deals that ranged from exchanging a handful of antibiotics for tourmalines through a border fence, to trading toe to toe across the middle of the Victoria Falls bridge, to walking through customs with 3500 carats of cut stones in his boots, to shipping 120 tons of handicrafts, animal products and zulu beadwork, and hiring the ballrooms of the New York Hilton to sell it all, he has shot, caught or eaten most things and been involved at every level. If trophy hunting is a subject that upsets you, intreagues you, or maybe you think you know all about it, well ... ... you are in for a very BIG surprise ...

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