THE NYLON SAFARI

REHNA CLOETE

ARTHUR BAKER LTD
1957

THIS is the reasonably accurate story of a girl who got a great big diamond as an anniversary present. It was a rough diamond in the human shape of a White Hunter—the guide, philosopher and friend of anyone unwary enough to embark on an African safari. For three weeks "Tiny" Cloete accompanied her author-husband and the White Hunter on a camera trip through Tanganyika. For the price of a mink coat she revelled in the luxuries of a fly-tent and collapsible canvas bath, hardboiled eggs and a thermos of coffee-tea. But she didn't revel quietly, and this thoroughly engaging book is the record of what she had to say to her two out-size boy scouts in the bleak dawns and the hungry noons and the lion-noisy nights,

"Tiny" came to new knowledge of herself (unbelievably brave and greedy), -of the White Hunter's Code (the client rides on the side with the rhino dents), of a husband's love (he'd dare any danger to save the film in her camera). There could be no nicer husband, she says, There could be no nicer or more capable hunter than Bill, There could even be no nicer or more exciting trip, now that it's over.

21 x 14 cm. x + 276 pp.

Good condition. The dust jacket has considerable loss along the edges. Boards slightly faded along the edges. Pages age tanned but clean and tidy.