The Animal Catchers by Colin Willock (1964, Hardcover)

The Animal Catchers
A violent novel about people and animals in Africa
by Colin Willock
Publisher:  Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright 1964
Book Club Edition

Ted Maxwell's profession is animal catching.  His task, when this story opens, is to catch and deliver a herd of white rhinos to the national parks of a central African state.  His outfit consists of some oddly assorted people.  The people exist in a state of precarious antagonism, held together simply by the fact that for them no other way of life is thinkable.  This applies equally to Nancy, Maxwell's wife who was crippled in an earlier catching adventure; to Webb, the young man with a genius for internal combustion engines and not much else; to Ryan, the Irish monkey-catcher roped in to save the safari from disaster; and to Maxwell's ward -- some says daughter -- with whom all three men are physically, if not emotionally, involved.  And as though personal tensions were not enough to imperil the venture, the newly independent state in which they are working suddenly explodes into tribal warfare.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's name and date are written on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.  There's a book club flyer and two index cards tucked inside the front cover.

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