A little over a century ago, East Africa was terra incognita to many whites: a land generally unmapped, sparsely settled simply by Europeans, and teeming with wildlife. It had been the hunter-adventurer’s heaven, and by the early 20th century a little, lionhearted clan of explorers and big-game hunters began leading safaris there for money. They became the renowned White Hunters, guys who led manifold adventurers in search of the world’s biggest, most harmful, and most sought-after game.

White Hunters is definitely a nostalgic and densely-packed background of these men and their travels, from the turn of the century until the 1970s, when politics, a growing population, civil strife, and concern on the subject of species destruction intervened.