A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to the grand tale of African adventure by Peter Capstick, the foremost hunting author of our time.
His words are rugged testimony to an Africa that is now a distant dream..
Though the great tuskers have largely gone and most of Wally\'s colleagues are dead, Wally has survived.
In Botswana, at age 63, Wally continued his career.
He bluffed down 200 armed poachers almost single-handedly, and survived rocket attacks from communist revolutionaries during Mozambique\'s plunge into chaos in 1975.
In hours of conversations by mopane fired in the African bush, Wally described his career--how he survived the massive bite of a Gaboon viper, buffalo gorings, floods, disease, and most dangerous of all, gold fever.
He\'s the Last one able to tell his story.
Most men died at this hazardous trade.
Wally Johnson spent half a century in Mozambique hunting white gold--ivory.
A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to the grand tale of African adventure by Peter Capstick, the foremost hunting author of our time
