About the book: 2001 / Czech Zdenek Wagner is a professional huntsman with almost 40 years of experience, a world-famous specialist in African hunting. Not long ago, after putting aside his beloved Winchester Magnum for a while, Wagner wrote a book. It contains only true events. These are classic hunting stories with spectacular pursuits of wild animals, with African exoticism and mysticism, and sometimes with exciting detective stories... Wagner, without unnecessary sentimentality, shows the cruel world of the jungle, where man and predator have approximately equal chances of victory. Everyday life in Africa means not only getting trophies, but also helping local residents who are being terrorized by a man-eating lion or a killer elephant. And sometimes the heroes of the collection have to follow the trail of a seasoned poacher... This is the genuine, far from bookish humanism of Wagner’s stories.