Guns Over Africa is an affirmation of sport hunting, and in this context, hunting that contributes to the economy of developing countries within the rules of international wildlife conservation and preservation. This does not mean that the hunter cannot enjoy the sport; it's not all high-minded and only for these obvious commercial and conservation benefits for other than the hunter himself (or herself). For the hunter, trophy mounts and memories resulting from such experiences flash back the challenge, the competition, the failures, the successes, the remorse, and the elation of the hunt. And they make last year, or before, when the animals were taken, seem not so long ago, and make the next hunt seem not so far away. Settings for these safari accounts are Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Jamel DuBois was born in a grassy ditch somewhere along an Arkansas back road, and the adventure could only get better. He left home at age seventeen, crossed the country by rail and tore up his return ticket lest he weaken and return to his father's house. He joined the Navy, and found that oceans are gateways not barriers. He has hunted a good part of the world, including much of the United States, Canada, Honduras, Spain and Africa, and has recorded those hunts and safaris with articles in Outdoor Life, Southern Outdoors, Western Outdoors, Gun Digest Hunting Annual, and various other guns-and-hunting magazines. He survived some wild adventures including dancing cheek-to-cheek with an irate Cape buffalo in Zimbabwe, and chancing onto a protective mama rhino with her kid in tow, blocking his escape path, in South Africa. He dispatched a wild boar in hand-to-hand combat, and faced down a Cape buffalo in a horn-to-belt buckle encounter. He has set foot in six dozen countries on six continents, and writes killer novels authentically set in Africa.
