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Finally, the long awaited and much anticipated "Rhino" book is available now. Safari Press has agreed to produce Hunting the African Rhino with James Rikhoff, the publisher of Amwell Press. The book was produced to match the physical appearance of the other four books in the Amwell series (elephant, buffalo, leopard, and lion), thus completing the set as well as making it a matching set with similar binding, paper, and slipcase. As before, Jim Rikhoff has done a special commentary, and as before, Guy Coheleach has created his magnificent colour illustrations as well as his incredible pencil drawings of rhinos.The African rhino has sadly taken a huge hit in recent times, but there was a time, which extended well past World War II, when rhinos were incredibly plentiful. In fact, when Theodore Roosevelt proceeded from Nairobi on foot into the interior of Kenya in 1909, rhinos had to be shot repeatedly because they attacked the caravan and knocked over and sometimes even killed the porters. Later, John Hunter was paid to clear out hundreds of black rhinos from the Makueni district in Kenya in the 1930s. Imagine being paid to shoot rhinos while currently permits for the same animal go for hundreds of thousands of dollars! As with the other books in this series, the book is divided into four parts, starting with the very earliest written records of rhino encounters in the English language and then continuing through three more sections with progressively more modern rhino-hunting stories. Some of the greatest names in the annals of African big-game hunting will grace the pages of this book: Henry Stanley, A. Blayney Percival, Theodore Roosevelt, Fred Kirby, Jack O'Connor, John Batten, Elgin Gates, Edison Marshall, Bunny Allen, Dean Witter, Soren Lindstrom, Finn Aagaard, and many others.
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