Back to the bush: Another year in the wild is the tale of a second year at Sasekile Private Game Reserve for Angus MacNaughton, his brother Hugh and the melange of outlandish characters who staff and visit the lodge. Angus's weekly journal recounts a positive beginning to the year for the MacNaughton brothers: fastidious Hugh is in love, running his own camp and on the verge of a promotion. Angus is involved in a romantic liaison, which takes the edge off his customary cynicism, and for the first time in their adult lives, a positive fraternal bond exists between them. Inevitably, reality comes calling. Angus's love affair ends and he copes poorly, Hugh becomes stratospherically arrogant on the back of a promotion and Julia, the MacNaughtons' sister, starts dating Angus's nemesis - Alistair 'The Legend' Jones. Then there are a series of further 'hiccups', from demanding lodge guests and marauding monkeys, to a labour protest, a run-in with a blind-drunk head chef, a winter drought, a rogue elephant that puts staff and guests in danger and the resignation of the sterling head ranger.
You are guaranteed to be entertained by the hilarious antics and hard knocks as well as the fierce beauty of the African landscape in Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'A Year in the Wild is a delight to read [and a] hugely entertaining novel. Don't miss it. If there's a sequel, and I hope there is, I will be first in line to read it.' - BRIAN JOSS, Bolander
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Pan Macmillan South Africa
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-77010-338-2 (9781770103382)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
JAMES HENDRY spent ten years working at exclusive lodges in
southern Africa. He worked as a ranger, ranger trainer, head ranger, land
manager, lodge manager, researcher and entertainer. In 2006 James co-authored
the non-fiction bestseller Whatever You
Do, Don't Run (Tafelberg). His first novel, A Year in the Wild: A Riotous Novel was released in September 2011
and became a South African bestseller. Back
to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild recounts the events of a second year
in Sasekile for the MacNaughton brothers.
