title: Augusts in Africa: Safaris into the Twilight: Forty Years of Essays and Stories
author: Thomas McIntyre
description: "Beautifully written . . . [McIntyre's] experiences in Africa have been some of the most transformative of his long hunting career, and his affection for the continent suffuses these stories and transports the reader along on his expeditions." (Diana Rupp <i><i>Sports Afield</i></i>)<br /><br />"Tommy McIntyre's <i>August in Africa</i> is such a book. I'm confident when I say it is his best book. Despite my love for that little Asian gem, <i>A Snow Leopard's Tale</i>, it is one of the two or three best books written about Africa by an American. Maybe in time, its autumnal tone will make it the best. If you have any interest in Africa at all, try this book and read his prologue. If you don't like that, I'll give you your money back." (Stephen Bodio <i><i>Querencia</i></i>)<br /><br />"McIntyre has a mastery of language that helps put us there far better than most other writers, even such vaunted names as Robert Ruark and Ernest Hemingway, but Augusts isnt just a story of hunting successes and failures. Instead its a look at the human condition." (John Barsness <i><i>Rifle Loony News</i></i>)
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  # THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO AND  
  Other East African Adventures
  
    
  
  ### BY
  
  ## Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O.
  
    
  
  ### WITH A FOREWORD BY FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS
  
    
  
  #### WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
  
    
  
  ### PREFACE
  
  It is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that I place the following
  pages before the public; but those of my friends who happen to have heard of
  my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so often urged me to write an
  account of my adventures, that after much hesitation I at last determined to
  do so.
  
  I have no doubt that many of my readers, who have perhaps never been very far
  away from civilisation, will be inclined to think that some of the incidents
  are exaggerated. I can only assure them that I have toned down the facts
  rather than otherwise, and have endeavoured to write a perfectly plain and
  straightforward account of things as they actually happened.
  
  It must be remembered that at the time these events occurred, the conditions
  prevailing in British 