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African Hunter is a classic among African safari literature. Blor Blixen is perhaps most famous for being the husband of writer Karen Blixen, who wrote her hauntingly beautiful swan song to Kenya Out of Africa (under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen). Bror, however, was best known among his contemporaries as a brilliant and adventurous hunter who guided, among others, the Prince of Wales on his 1928 and 1930 safaris.

Seemingly physically indomitable, yet somehow impecunious throughout his career despite his success as a hunter, he sought adventure wherever he could, including the unforgiving heat and sands of the Sahara.

One-time lover and famous aviatrix Beryl Markham said of Blixen in her book West with the Night, “He is six feet of amiable Swede and, to my knowledge, the toughest, most durable White Hunter ever to snicker at the fanfare of safari or to shoot a charging buffalo between the eyes while debating whether his sundown drink will be gin or whisky.”

Blixen is one of the legends of the Golden Age of safari and African Hunter deserves a spot on any safari enthusiast’s bookshelf.