From the Plains of Africa to the Jungles of Parliament

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Barry Inc. Turner. From the Plains of Africa to the Jungles of Parliament

PREFACE by Patrick Hemingway

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PART I—FROM THE PLAINS OF AFRICA. HOW IT ALL BEGAN

MY CUSO ASSIGNMENT

THE CULL

ELEPHANT CONSERVATION AND THE BURNING BOMA

CHARLIE POWELL THE ROAD GRADER

HUNTING CAPE BUFFALO

LEOPARD HUNT

KHV 110

MY PARENTS’ AFRICAN ADVENTURE

A CONTESSA DENIED

PRESIDENT NYERERE AND ME

TROUT FISHING WITH HEMINGWAY

MISPLACED NOT LOST

RUPERT—PART ONE—THE SERENGETI MIGRATION

RUPERT—PART TWO—THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

MY FRIEND IDDI

GETTING THE JOB DONE

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN

PART II—TO THE JUNGLES OF PARLIAMENT. HOLLYWOOD AND THE MKOMAZI

THE CANDIDATE

PARACHUTING ON THE HILL

PARLIAMENTARY TROUTING

TRUE NORTH

NEW CANADIANS

ME, A SUB MARINER?

POLITICAL SAFARIS

MEETING A MOUNTAINEER

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV—A MOUNTAIN MAN OF A DIFFERENT NATURE

MOUNTAINS, MOOSE AND MACHAKA

NATIONAL WILDLIFE ACT INITIATIVE

SUMMER SAILING

THE MILE CIRCLE

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO

VERITAS SINE TIMORE

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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For me, reading the East African portions of this book has been a very pleasant walk down memory lane. Barry Turner had many of the same friends and did a lot of the same things there as me. The difference is that he has taken the trouble to write about them and I haven’t. I am a little envious of the fine job he has done of evoking les neiges d’antan, although snow is perhaps not the best metaphor for all the hot dry miles and miles of bloody Africa!

People who have concerns for the conservation of the natural world have tended to polarize into two groups, often in opposition; those who are somewhat easy going and frivolous and those who earnestly believe people are inescapablely part of nature and have the ability to understand the consequences of their actions on the natural world and behave responsibly.

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Patrick Hemingway,

Bozeman, Montana, 2012

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