Months of the Sun: Forty Years of Elephant Hunting in the Zambezi Valley

Hardcover, 407 pages. It was more than the hunt for Ivory that led Ian Nyschens to his remarkable career. His quest for adventure was of the most intense kind, the sort of search that led him to hunt elephants in the dense, razor sharp thickets of Mozambique and crocodiles in some of Africa's most hazardous waters. When Mozambique closed its open ended elephant licenses in I953. Nyschens moved to Southern Rhodesia and began hunting on the wrong side of the law. He became such a notorious ivory poacher that Southern Rhodesian officials wooed him over to their side by making him one of the country's first game rangers. He is the most famous elephant hunter of Zambezia, and by the end of his forty-year career, Ian Nyschens had shot more than a thousand elephants, ranking him with the likes of Waller Bell and Jim Sutherland. Raw courage put Nyschens, his friends, and his trackers in the face of danger time and time again, and whether facing seventeen charging elephants in a swamp or firing