Wild flowers on the grave of Selous
Just last month, the 4 last January- have been met ninety-five years after the death of one of my heroes reference, a hunter named Frederick Courtenay Selous. I have never felt a special admiration for the hunter and not a sport that has attracted me particularly to practice. But Selous was more than a hunter. First of all, a dreamer; after, a brave man; and thirdly, someone who knew how to build a prosperous life passions, perhaps the most difficult of all companies which can take a human being and which allows them to meet the privileged, based on all of tenacity and a dash of good luck.
Selous was the son of a wealthy British family, a great guy her intellectual gifts and his temper. As a child, along with other kids skating on the frozen surface of a pond Hyde Park, ice suddenly cracked. Several children died, but Frederick kept his cool: floating on a piece of ice, was getting close to other major and, jumping plate plate, without losing your mind, managed to gain the edge.
At the meet of age, the boy made the mat, bought a pair of shotguns and took off on a steamer to South Africa
He was destined to be a doctor, like his grandfather and father. But the latter made a mistake: gave him to read a book Livingstone on his explorations in Africa. And Selous proclaimed the end of their reading: "I'll go to Africa and hunter". Perhaps his father smiled at hearing. But his smile is likely to become a monumental anger when, on reaching the age of majority, the boy made the mat, bought a pair of shotguns and took off on a steamer to South Africa. He did not return until after sixty years of age, when it was a myth of exploration and hunting in Africa.
Selous was a gentleman who drove clean rules on hunting. Never shoot on females, eg, and refused to hunt lions from motor vehicles: preferred to bring them down as they carried on chasing him or the horse, the most dangerous form of lion hunting.
When he decided to retire, retired to England to write his memories African. But the outbreak of World War I., opened a new front in the colonies in Africa and Selous, with over sixty years, started to volunteer at the black continent, with the use of captain. The 4 July 1917, in a skirmish with the enemy, a sniper shot hit him in the head, on the banks of río Beho Beho. He died instantly. The Germans and the English, in times of war knights, agreed to a truce 24 hours to pay tribute.
Selous was inspired Haggard to create the figure of Allan Quatermain, the star of "King Solomon's Mines"
They say that the novelist Edgard Ridder Haggard Selous was inspired to create the figure of Allan Quatermain, the protagonist of "King Solomon's Mines". In any case, Tanzanian authorities, when the country gained independence, decided to baptize the national park where he met his death with his name. And today the Selous reserve, the largest park in Africa and the second largest in the world, is one of the black continent in places where one of the largest concentrations of wild animals, with large populations of elephants and hippos.
I have twice visited the tomb of Selous, in the wooded banks of Beho Beho, an area frequently visited by lions. I like the ritual of visiting the places where the remains of my heroes reference. And leave their graves wild flowers as a tribute.
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Javier Reverte and heroes of Africa
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Carlos Garcia
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As I like to read such stories Reverte. motnón bring me memories of travels in Africa with a book in his hand. Thanks Javier.
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I have wanted to go hunting (but with camera in hand)
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Alberto
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A good story. Always shop around the graves of our heroes.
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sonia
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The memory of great inspiration always land where they have carved a niche. I felt that in Kafka's grave in Prague and many other people I admire
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