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The Last Safari |
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A Season of Discovery in Zimbabwe "Zimbabwe is at a crossroads, and the welfare of its game and its people are inseparable. If you care about one you must see to the needs of the other."c.b.vanbuskirk Photos from the book |
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Author at Home in Main Camp |
Author and Dylan withelephant |
Crowds close in at Kill |
Crowds gather at wounded elephant |
Peter and author with geese |
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Author with charging bull |
Troy and Dylan with bull |
Stuck in the river |
Radio Kirk from river |
River at Kalsiga |
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Huts at Kalsiga |
Author receiving ticket |
Rhodes grave |
Shangoni Massacre Monument |
.500 and .375 recovered solids |
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Author with camp donkeys |
Author with Pension |
Bennie |
Troy with camp cat |
Steven with grandaughter |
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My friend Peter |
Scouts run to the gunfire |
Author with snared buffalo |
Egyptian goose |
Drinking well at Zhomba |
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Burning the jess |
Captured poachers |
Poachers at the Zhomba police |
Land Rover |
Meat drying in game scouts village |
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Baboon and borrowed rifle |
Camp at Mahenya |
Cascading pools at Chilo Gorge |
ticket at vet roadblock |
Client hut at Jonsyl |
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Fire pit at Jonsyl |
Author on hilltop at Jonsyl |
Inside client hut at Jonsyl |
Author with lion cubs |
Shops Downstairs |
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Open terrain at Shangoni |
Inside client hut at Shangoni |
Dining hut at Shangoni |
Dining hut at roadside |
Fixing truck on roadside |
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Gold panning poachers |
Water tank loaded on 7 ton truck |
four birds with one shot |
Dylan supervising lion blind |
boomslang escapes from bar |
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Haze over Zhomba valley |
Artifacts on cave floor |
Grain bins in bushman cave |
Tomerara carving walking stick |
Dylan negotiation cow rental |
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Picture that almost got author arrested |
Dylan with broken fan |
Inside leopard blind |
Sengwa River gorge |
Dylan lowered into Gorge |
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Author lowered into Gorge |
Village near Manyoni |
Children scramble for candy |
Dudley confers with local Chief |
Impala caught in snare 1 |
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Impala caught in snare 2 |
Impala caught in snare 3 |
Impala caught in snare 4 |
Impala caught in snare being released |
Scouting for elephants |
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Snares found inside Sengwa |
Delivering truck to local Chief |
Sunnyboy contemplating accident |
Caldon confers with local Police |
Villagers help with elephant recovery |
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Snake in roof of hut |
Wounded snake on floor |
Author with last elephant of season |
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Additional Photos
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Kirk Mason |
Carl Mason with client and 8 foot leopard |
Josea, Godfrey, !Namuli, game scout |
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Rifles stacked in front of buffalo ambush tunnel |
Close up of buff cow in ambush |
Author, Kirk and client with cow buff |
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all photos courtesy of the author-copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved no reproduction or other use without specific permission from author |