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A FAR FROM ORDINARY LIFE
A DIARY OF ADVENTURES IN AN AFRICA NOW PAST
by Fred Duckworth
illustrated by Elise van der Heijden
2004 1st edition. Large quarto hardback, xii + 244 pages.
Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Elise van der Heijden, map end-papers.
Fine new unread hardback in dust-wrapper.
"Fred's hunting career nearly came to an end when he was shipped off to Great Britain for the sake of an education and when he learned his father had drowned while hunting elephant in southeastern Tanganyika. Devastated that his mother had sold her husband's guns, he embarked, at age eighteen, on life with his father's all-important last real gift, a .375 H&H Magnum Mauser."
"Fred's descriptive prose vividly brings to life his wanderings and twists of fate as he evolved from his early years assisting game-control scouts in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanganyika to becoming a licensed professional hunter. Along that path in his long career he hunted for ivory at a time when a 110-pound per side tusker was worth four-month's pay as an assistant game ranger, and he describes the personalities, guns, and game encountered."
"In a feat that would be impossible today, Fred's perpetual lucky streak landed him highly coveted "real jobs" that led to great adventures. As regional game warden of Nyasaland, he was called in to hunt down thirteen man-eating lions, including the notorious Kasupe lion that had killed seventeen women, nine men, one child, and had mauled another eight people. We find Duckworth in 1972 in the Coptic Christian Empire of Ethiopia, where he was responsible for "reorganizing" the barely existing big-game hunting safari industry. In the meantime, in the Danakil he met his future wife - the beautiful, adventurous Dutch artist, Elise van der Heijden."
ISBN : 9780958459037
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TRANSPARENT POSTAGE
The price of each of book includes £3.50 to cover domestic postage. BUT: We will give you back £2.00 for your 3rd book and each of all subsequent books in the same order, or orders combined into one parcel. No one else on eBay does that!
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UK POSTAGE is built in to the price. It costs £3.50 for the first book, and for the second; after that we refund you £2.00 for each and every book, provided you order them all at one go. We will combine separate orders, but you must contact us immediately to arrange this. If we have already dispatched one of your orders by the time you contact us, unfortunately, we cannot do anything about it.
£3.50 is included in the price of each book to cover postage. If you buy more than two books at the same time, we will refund you £2.00 on the 3rd book, plus £2.00 on each subsequent book: buy 6 books and we will give you £8.00 back, buy 12 books, and we will give you £20.00 back, for example. Refunds will be made only to the PayPal account or card number by which you paid.
PARCELS BELOW 2KG are sent by Royal Mail, and will normally be delivered by the postman, 3 - 5 days after despatch.
PARCELS OVER 2KG are sent by Royal Mail’s Tracked Service. A TRACKING NUMBER is provided with all such orders. The parcel will be delivered the NEXT WORKING DAY, or in some parts of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Northern Ireland, Scilly, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands, the SECOND WORKING DAY.
OVERSEAS POSTAGE is charged by weight, at cost and is generally sent by Airmail. The postage quoted on this listing has been reduced by £3.50 to account for the £3.50 already included in the price of the book (as explained above).
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(In the UK the Royal Mail will not declare a parcel lost & take action before 14 days has elapsed. Overseas, postal services vary in efficiency from country to country. The Irish and the Japanese post offices seem quite good, for example, the Germans less so, and South Africa the slowest by a long way.)
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