One family, a passion for hunting, the bushmen of the Kalahari and the fascinating environments of the Kalahari and Okavango Delta.

'A superb work of narrative history' Antonia Fraser On 25 September 1513, a force of weary Spanish explorers cut through the forests of Panama and were confronted with an ocean: the Mar del Sur, or the Pacific Ocean. Six years later the Spaniards had established the town of Panama as a base from which to explore and exploit this unknown sea. It was the threshold of a vast expansion. From the first small band of Spanish adventurers to enter the mighty Inca empire, to the execution of the last Inca forty years later, The Conquest of the Incas is a story of bloodshed, infamy, rebellion and extermination, told as convincingly as if it happened yesterday. 'It is a delight to praise a book of this quality which combines careful scholarship with sparkling narrative skill' Philip Magnus, Sunday Times 'A superbly vivid history' The Times

The adventures take place in Mozambique and Zimbabwe after World War II.

Peter McKenzie is a professional hunter in colonial Kenya whose idyllic life is disrupted by the Mau Mau Emergency. The emergency puts a severe strain on the lives of farmers in rural areas, including McKenzie and his new bride, and he and his fellow farmers and hunters are forced to kill Mau Maus rather than buffalo and elephant.

Born with a full compliment of 'hunters genes' in rural Africa, I make no apologies for allowing the predatory instinct to influence my life from an early age.