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New Book:
My Vanishing African Dreams
Hard Cover edition, Soft Cover edition, eBook edition
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About the Author: Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Susan M. Hall emigrated to Kenya when she was four years old. A self-taught artist, she became a professional wildlife and bird artist. Promotional Video
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| Prologue: Our Arrival in Kenya ............................................ PART ONE: Enasoit, the Ranch of Wonder ......................... The Lion Attack .......................................................................... Enasoit ........................................................................................ The Move ................................................................................. The Homesteads ...................................................................... Looking after the Stock ........................................................... Trading Days and the Characters ............................................. The Rainy Season .................................................................... Encounters with Wild Animals ................................................ Hyena Encounter ................................................................ The Bull Elephant .............................................................. A Beauty of a Cobra .......................................................... Shadow or Puff Adder ...................................................... Born Free Lions ................................................................. Lions in the Garden ........................................................... My Bat-Eared Foxes ......................................................... A Charging Buffalo ............................................................ Two Buffalo Bulls .............................................................. A Wounded Buffalo ........................................................... A Rhino Charge ................................................................. Baboon in the House .......................................................... Another Baboon ................................................................. The Young Lion ................................................................. Lioness with Cubs ............................................................. Side-Striped Ground Squirrel ............................................ Clara, the Yellow-Necked Spurfowl .................................. A Fiery-Eyed Leopard ....................................................... Wild African Hunting Dog Encounter ............................... Four Hundred Elephants in the Garden ............................. The Three Baddies ............................................................. Fighting Buffalo ................................................................. The Elephant Incident at Samsara ..................................... Mongoose in My Boots ..................................................... Friends in the Bush ............................................................ Leopard by My Window .................................................... Sambo, the Colobus Monkey ............................................. Calling to the Mourning Doves ......................................... PART TWO: Safaris in the North ...................................... Our First Safaris ..................................................................... Suzuki Safaris with Father ............................................... Safaris in the North .......................................................... Climbing the Mountains ........................................................ Ol-Lolokwe ...................................................................... Baio .................................................................................. Poi .................................................................................... The Ndotos ....................................................................... PART THREE: Aircraft Days ............................................ The Aircraft We Owned ......................................................... The Piper Cruiser ............................................................. The First Beechcraft Bonanza, VP-KHU ........................ The Second Beechcraft Bonanza, VP-KGU ................... The First Navion Rangemaster, N2500T, 5Y-AFM ........ The Second Navion Rangemaster N2486T, 5Y-BKL PART FOUR: The Family ................................................... My Mother and Father, Thelma and John ............................. Andrew, My Brother .............................................................. PART FIVE: Life as an Artist ............................................ How It All Began ........................................................ The Designing and Building of Samsara ............................... PART SIX: Romance ........................................................... Friends of the Past ................................................................. The Love of My Life ............................................................. Romance ................................................................................ The Building of Nirvana ........................................................ The Wedding ......................................................................... |
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