The book is a memoir of my hunting and fishing adventures in Africa at the end of colonialism and through its decade long shadow in the 1960s and 70s in Bechuanaland and Botswana, Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Zambia (with a postscript telling of the Congo Republic in 1992) - a time of fulsome wildlife stocks: elephant in Zambia reaching some 350,000 in number, and the black rhino, perhaps 10,000. The book is about when the ‘going was good’ and when friendships were deep and enduring and the game conserved.