One of the greatest living writers of African hunting and safari experience, Peter Hathaway Capstick tells the story of Walter Walker Johnson\'s life.
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 Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson , a grand tale of African adventure by renowned hunting author Peter Hathaway Capstick. 16 pages of photos.
Gold prospector, elephant hunter, professional guide, Johnson\'s tale is one of unique excitement and danger.
One of the greatest living writers of African hunting and safari experience, Peter Hathaway Capstick tells the story of Walter Walker Johnson\'s life
