HUNTING STORIES

Zimbabwean born Kevin is a fifth generation African, of British 1820 Settler ancestry. For nearly four decades, he has been involved with the Southern African hunting safari industry.

A product of the original Rhodesian National Parks department - undoubtedly one of the finest dangerous game hunting schools in Africa - Kevin is a fully qualified and licensed PH in South Africa and Zimbabwe. For Kevin, hunting has always been a way of life, and he willingly shares his many years of experience with his clients, ensuring they not only enjoy the safari of a lifetime, but also go away with quality trophies.

Kevin is also a published author, with his second book Tracking the Memory having just been published, this following on the success of his first book Shadows in an African Twilight. As an accomplished outdoor writer too, his articles appear regularly in South Africa's Magnum magazine and have appeared in other international hunting publications.

Tracking the Memory is primarily a collection of informative and personal stories about the different experiences of hunting. It is also the culmination of a boyhood enterprise of exploration and discovery that began on a farm in the Chipinga area of British colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) during the mid 1950’s and continued along the banks of the majestic Sabi River, and lives to this day 55 years on as a lifetime career and passion of the author.

Kevin Thomas is first a professional hunter but thankfully he is also a writer, and as such we have this collection of firsthand accounts of what it is like to straddle both the romantic, adventurous side of hunting and the modern commercial aspect of an often controversial industry.

Hunting is now a business but we must always remember it was once a way of life.

Game Ranger, Special Force Soldier, Professional Hunter and Personal Security Officer – Shadows in an African Twilight is a collection of fascinating stories about a life of adventure spread across nearly four decades in Africa and culminating in Iraq.

Many of the stories are not for the squeamish and tell of the aberrant behaviour of man-eating lions and killer crocodiles, stories of courageous Rhodesian game rangers who while fighting to preserve the wildlife of a beautiful country were also fighting against brutal terrorist forces.

The author also relates some of his experiences as a pseudo counter-terrorist operator in the elite Selous Scouts during the Rhodesian Bush War, and covers many of his experiences as a professional hunter in the exciting world of African Safari.

Having also served in the previous South African era ‘black homeland’ of Ciskei he offers an often-humorous insight into life during the wayward period.

This exciting book of adventure ends with a look into what it is like to work in war-torn Iraq in the specialised field of Security Escort Teams. 

SHADOWS IN AN AFRICAN TWILIGHT

TRACKING THE MEMORY

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