Dangerous Beauty - Life and Death in Africa : True Stories from a Safari Guide

by Ross, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780786866724
• ISBN10: 0786866721
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-15
• Publisher: Miamax

Summary

On March 1, 1999, American safari guide Mark Ross was camping with four clients in Uganda, searching for endangered mountain gorillas. By day's end, two of these clients and six other tourists were dead at the hands of Rwandan rebels. As a man who loves East Africa, Ross felt betrayed by this horror, which made headlines around the world. He writes, "The continent has always been the love of my life. Now there is trouble between us".Dangerous Beauty is the story of that love and that trouble. Ross, one of the most seasoned and skilled safari guides at work in Africa today, writes here about his close-up encounters with danger and natural beauty in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. He describes his walks in the bush and the way he teaches his clients to read unearthly silences and stillnesses in the wind that signify trouble. He writes about deadly charges by elephants, encounters with lions, cheetahs, and Cape buffalo, and the electric excitement of witnessing the mass migrations of wildebeest and zebras. He writes, too, in detail about the terrible events of 1999 and their aftermath. Imbued with Ross's passion for East Africa

Author Biography

Mark C. Ross spent his summers in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming, and Washington, working as a forest firefighter before moving to Africa and becoming a full-time guide based in Kenya. He has been working as a guide and pilot for over twenty years.

Table of Contents

Life Before Death	1	(35)
Arrival at Last	36	(23)
The Welcome of the Bush	59	(32)
At Home in the Fields	91	(26)
Good Intentions	117	(23)
The Story in the Sands: Safari on Foot	140	(26)
Stalking on the Serengeti	166	(23)
Killing in the Crater	189	(18)
Crossing the Grumeti	207	(14)
Strangers in a Strange Land	221	(31)
The Impenetrable Forest	252	(27)
The Journey Back	279	(27)
``Sobat!''	306	(15)
Acknowledgments	321