The story of a young Russian aristocrat who flees the Communist revolution in 1917 and starts over in the turbulent
city of Shanghai. There he fights to build a new exotic life filled with passion, violence and revenge. Typical of
Bull's meticulously detailed historical epics, this yarn evokes the sights, sounds, tastes and scents of a
splendidly decadent era in the most exciting city of its time.
"Bartle Bull brilliantly brings to life post World War I Shanghai...Great tale from a great writer."
- Forbes
Against a background of the 1942 desert war between Rommel and the British, Bull's exotic African characters come
together in battle and in the cafes and fleshpots of World War II's most romantic and cosmopolitan city, Cairo,
where the Goan dwarf continues his intrigues on his houseboat cafe in the Nile. The exciting third volume of Bull's
African trilogy.
"Romantic and eventful...a satisfying does of wartime action, private revenge and seething passion."
- The New York Times
Set in East Africa after the end of World War I, this is the tale of Anton Rider, a young professional hunter
raised by gypsies in England who moves to Kenya and begins a life of adventure and romance amidst a cast that
includes a gorgeous Welsch ambulance driver, a proad Goan dwarf, a German soldier of fortune, an American Safari
hunter, and a brutal Portuguese aristocrat and his oversexed sister. The dramatic first volume of Bull's African
trilogy.
"Bull has a story to tell and he tells it memorably. Comparisons to Hemingway and Ruark are meaningless as Bull's
knowledge of Africa is profound."
- The Washington Post
Set in Cairo and Ethiopia in 1935 during Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, rich in authentic detail, this is a story
of high adventure and romance told during the harsh prologues to World War II. The hunter, Anton Rider, is leading a
safari in the highlands of Ethiopia as the Italians invade. His clients film the atrocities and the safari is hunted
by the invading army while Rider seeks to save his estranged wife. Book two of the African trilogy.
"Spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world."
- The New York Times
Bartle Bull's classic is recognized as the definitive history of the African safari. Enriched with 350 illustrations,
filled with African and wildlife lore, it begins with the earliest European sporting expeditions and traces the
development of the safari with tales of explorers, ivory hunters, adventurers, "Great White Hunters," and the most
pampered and mischievous clients. Bull brings the safari to life with his first-hand attention to detail and his flair
for adventure.
"In every line a celebration of man and his environment, written with love and profound understanding."
- Edmund Morris
