📱 eBook en inglés Bushveld Encounters

The term "Bushveld" conjures up images and memories of the outstretched South African Bushveld with its magnitude of game, including the Big 5, and eventfull hunting expeditions.

In Bushveld Encounters the reader will not only discover the beauty, diversity and harshness of the romantic South African Bushveld, but he will also meet and spend quality time with some loveable, and not so loveable, hunters and other Bushveld characters in a number of humorous short stories, based on actual characters and events.

The story of Madala, a splendid lion, is published here for the first time. It is the remarkable story of a male lion that escaped the Kruger National Park and ruled supreme in his new home over four other lion troops for more than 8 years - this is film making material.

The author hails from a family of pioneers and regards himself as a true Son of the African Bushveld. His great grandfather was field cornet and roads Inspector for the De Kaap Goudvelde (Barberton area close to Kruger Park) from about 1884 to 1896 and is one of the "founders" of the Kruger National Park.

Many of the familys members, including renowned South African naturalist and author, Eugène Marais and L A T van Niekerk , also lived or visited and productively wrote about the Bushvelds splendours.

The author has been living in the Bushveld of the Limpopo Province for three decades, is a founder member of the Friends of Nylsvley Floodplain Society and has written various publications on the Bushveld. His books, "Eugène N. Marais: New Facts and New Insights" and "Eugène Marais Rediscovered" are groundbreaking tracing this well-known pioneering scientist with Bushveld roots exploits and discoveries.

As one of South Africas most accomplished birders, the author boasts seven bird books, including Spotters Guide to Birds of the Bushveld, Spotters Guide to Birds of the Lowveld and the best-selling "Sappi birds of South Africa with Callfinder, " all three available in English and Afrikaans editions.

The author also studied bird colours intensively, discovereing the 5 gene defects that are responsible for colour changes in birds, and have written various books on bird breeding, bird colours and colour blindness, for which he predicts either a preventative remedy or a cure as a result of his discoveries.

This book is a valuable addition to any hunter or Bushveld lovers library.