REturn to the Wild
‘Laugh-out-loud funny, but also moving and uplifting. James Hendry’s riotous warts-and-all insight into the safari industry is a must for lovers of Africa, wildlife, comedy and love.’ - TONY PARK.
James Hendry returns to the setting of Sasekile Private Game Reserve for another tale that takes the reader behind the scenes with the MacNaughton brothers, Angus and Hugh.
In Return to the Wild there is high drama, much hilarity and many close encounters with wildlife, fire and human incompetence as Angus unexpectedly returns to Sasekile to take on the training of a motley group of would-be game rangers with his usual stark but eloquent honesty. Alongside him, Hugh manages the lodge and its colourful staff with a varying degree of competence as events lurch from mishap to potential catastrophe.
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Reggie and Me
A time of turbulence as the struggle against apartheid reaches its zenith, pushing South Africa to the brink. But for a one small boy in the leafy northern suburbs of Johannesburg ... his beloved housekeeper is serving fish fingers for lunch.
‘Poignant, hilarious and at times tragic, this is the charming tale of Hamish, a quirky and lovable schoolboy growing up in Joburg during the turbulent 80s and early 90s.' JUSTIN FOX, author or The impossible Five
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Back to the Bush - Another Year In the Wild
If you’ve ever been to a game reserve you will relate. If you want to laugh, Hendry’s penetrating prose reveals every nation, including South Africans, in all their imperfect glory. And if you simply want to read good South African fiction, I highly recommend Back to the Bush. Amanda Patterson (CEO, writer’s write).
The story, like its predecessor, is set at Sasekile Private Game Reserve – a five-star game lodge and haven for wildlife somewhere in the greater Kruger National Park. There are the inevitable series of lodge hiccups provided by marauding baboons, a one-tusked rogue elephant, a labour protest and a blind-drunk head chef.
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A year in the Wild
‘A year in the wild is both delicious and deliciously funny. And it gives the most fascinating insight into what goes on behind the scenes of larney lodges…Stephanie Saville, the Witness.
Angus and Hugh MacNaughton are brothers. They dislike each other. A lot.
Combine: an eclectic mix of rich, over-demanding and adulterous guests, a dash of crazy bush staff including two jealous brothers (one a bitterly sarcastic game ranger and the other an over-eager lodge manager) and them in the beauty of the African bushveld. Shake well. Conflict and disaster are inevitable.
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Whatever you do don't run
‘I love it when books exceed expectations…my favourite story is undoubtedly James Hendry’s Tracker. His descriptions of the taciturn Elvis had me in stitches…Whatever you do don’t run is a must have book if you love the outdoors…’Cape Times, 28/09/2006.
From the hair-raising to the hilarious, Whatever you do don’t run reveals the reality of game ranging as experienced by four very human rangers.
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