His name is "Multiple Deadlines" and he has it in for me.
I stumbled upon a very cool site last week and thought to share it with my compadres of the silicon trail. (Best I can do right now with multiple deadlines staring me down like a pissed off Cape Buffalo).
Gorillaland is the Web home of Greg Cummings, a conservationist and author of a thriller that purports to be in “the best tradition of Wilbur Smith and Clive Cussler.” Can’t speak to the novel, but the site is a marvelous treasure trove of Africana. I direct your attention particularly to The Lodge Library, where Cummings has posted a collection of biographies of great hunters (Percival, Bell, Burnham, etc.) and a vintage library of books available for free download (Selous, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Morton Stanley, and more).
There’s also a collection of vintage movies set in Africa, old time radio shows…
Head on over for an armchair safari and I’ll see you down the trail in a week or so — if that Cape Buffalo doesn’t hook-and-stomp me into a greasy stain.
Lane Batot says
“CLIMBAH AH TREE!!!! CLIMBAH AH TREE!!!!!”…This is what our African scout started hollering when I and the group of folks I was accompanying on a Yellow Babbon study(yes, we were on foot–long long ago…) in Southern Tanzania(Mikumi National Park, at the top of the Selous Game Reserve), came out of some thick brush into a clearing with about two-hundred Cape Buffalo! The most panicked I ever saw any of those people! I was up a sturdy tree in short order! The buffalo pawed the dirt and bellowed for a few moments, then wheeled and thundered in the other direction(thank goodness)–the earth literally shook! They stopped to reconsider, and began pawing the dirt and bellowed some more, then stampeded on over a ridge–magnificent sight!….and DANG YER HIDE for exposing me to this link! Many, many books I’ll have to check out, if I live long enough…..
JimC says
“DANG YER HIDE for exposing me to this link! Many, many books I’ll have to check out, if I live long enough…..”
I am a bad, bad man…
Lane Batot says
…that was supposed to say “Yellow Baboon”….
Lane Batot says
But, you know, bad in a GOOD way!