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    The Last Savanna
    The Last Savanna
    The Last Savanna
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Last Savanna

    Written by Mike Bond

    Narrated by Simon Mattacks

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    "One of the most realistic portrayals of Africa yet." - Yahoo Reviews

    With Africa's last elephants dying under the poachers' guns, Kenya rancher and former SAS officer Ian MacAdam leads a commando squad against them. Pursuing the poachers through jungled mountains and searing deserts he battles thirst, solitude, terror and lethal animals, only to find that the poachers have kidnapped a young archaeologist, Rebecca Hecht, whom he once loved and bitterly lost.

    McAdam embarks upon a desperate trek to save not only Rebecca but his own soul in an Africa torn apart by wars, overpopulation, and the slaughter of its last wildlife. Based on the author's experiences pursuing elephant poachers in the wilds of East Africa.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781536674897
    Author

    Mike Bond

    Called "the master of the existential thriller" (BBC), "one of America's best thriller writers" (Culture Buzz) and "one of the 21st century's most exciting authors" (Washington Times), Mike Bond is the author of eight best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, and award-winning poet. Based on his own experiences in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world, his novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.

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    • 1/5
      In a nutshell this isn't the book I thought I was going to get. I thought Africa, poaching and a thriller trying to save Elephants, yes please! I have strong opinions about poaching and I love animals, especially elephants! I expected a realistic, gritty but hopefully hopeful story about the fight against poaching. That doesn't seem to be what this is about.I have looked at some other reviews in order to see what's going to happen, and i'm so not interested. I can already see MacAdam has no interest in saving the elephants, he doesn't give a crap. He just wants the thrill of killing, of action and adventure. It's not about saving the elephants at all.MacAdam and his wife Dorothy are on the rocks. She wants to go back home to England...and apparently he deals with that by...searching the country for his ex-lover Rebecca? Seems she gets kidnapped by the poachers and he spends a lot of time pining after her. From what I gather his thoughts, and you spend a lot of time in his head, go between how beautiful Africa is, the thought of killing and him pining after his ex-lover when he has a wife and she is also in another relationship. It doesn't sound like a romance I can get behind, especially when it ends up such a big part of the story (even some glowing reviews which make up the first 5% of the book mention how it's a wonderful romance...that's not what I signed up for when I wanted to read this book, also how is cheating a wonderful romance?).Also MacAdam is sexist. One quote that I did read in my short time reading this "He felt suddenly that women had emptied men through submission and fidelity, stolen their power by demanding that they not wander, not war, not hunt, not fertilize other women. What weaklings, how feeble we've become. I too. To call this life."I can understand wanting to travel and needing to hunt for food. But why do we need war? And why do you HAVE to cheat? And what's this power shit? From what i've heard it doesn't get any better. I also think this book ends up being racist but i'm not entirely sure. I am white in the US so take that part with a grain of salt, something about it just didn't sit right with me.I wanted something to address the poaching crisis, a thrilling read that painted a realistic picture of it but with hope. Not a main character I can't stand complaining about his wife, women and pining after his ex-lover while not caring a damn about the elephants that he's supposed to be saving.I am aware I can't judge the entire book for myself seeing as I DNF'd it, but combined with hating it at the start and reading other reviews to see where it goes, and it doesn't appear to get better and I just can't push on anymore. It's making me not want to read and I have no time to read books i'm hating. If you want to give it a chance go ahead, please don't let me stop you, I just hope you enjoy it more than I did.
    • 5/5
      Mike Bond's The Last Savanna is a survival story at several levels, from the survival of predatory and prey in the African bush, to the survival of men and women in the unforgiving landscape, the survival of human-hunted and the human-prey, and the survival of the continent itself as the land is stripped of its wildlife. I didn't really know what to expect of this novel, but I was pleasantly surprised. It is much more literary than your typical adventure novel. The characters are all too human, and the struggles they face are as much within themselves as outside themselves. In particular, I was impressed with Bond's ability to depict how, under the stress of thirst, exhaustion, and emotion, the mind can begin to deteriorate. I was also impressed with Bond's ability to clearly show the differences in values and culture and thinking between the indigenous people of Africa and the whites. I would recommend this novel to anyone.
    • 5/5
      There are many interesting things about this book, the story is compelling while being bleak and dark, the prose is wonderful, descriptive sentences that make you think you are seeing the action. Unfortunately, the situation in Africa is not bright and cheery, it is, as the author proves reverting to the pre-colonial tribal way of existence complete with the prejudices, conflicts and desperation associated with anarchy. The author's ability to create word pictures brings all this home along with the emotional hopelessness common with such regression. A wonderful book about a terrible situation, read it for the prose and for the education of what our fellow humans face on another continent.
    • 5/5
      I received a free advance e-copy of this book and have chosen to write an honest and unbiased review. I have no personal affiliation with the author. This is a dark and beautifully written novel. Mike Bond is a very descriptive and colorful writer. Africa is amazing and beautiful. He paints the extreme beauty of Africa as well as the dark, savage, and dangerous side of Africa with words that create amazing pictures in the mind of the reader. ‘The Last Savanna’ is about the ongoing battle between man and nature. We see all of the weaknesses of man including good and evil. There are ongoing issues as Africa struggles with corruption and poachers. The ending was a surprise to me as it was not what I expected. This is an extremely well written picture of Africa and well worth the read. I look forward to reading more from Mike Bond in the future.
    • 3/5
      I won this in a giveaway - Honest review, right? It was a very interesting story, full of prose and literary style; it felt more like a literature class required read. It was a very good book but a bit too pretentious for everyday reading.
    • 5/5
      This is not quite what I expected when I picked it up. I imagined there would be more about poaching and the animals than what there was. What this book is is a harbinger of what will happen to our planet when we stop caring; forests decimated, animal herds wiped out, man fighting against man until we witness our earth's last savanna. It's quite a depressing book but I am glad I read it and probably will reread it again.
    • 3/5
      An intriguing story that captures the heat and cold of the African desert, its wild animals, poachers and good guys engaged in a deadly chase ending in the death of the main character, the apparent freedom of the heroine (if she can be called that) and the demise of the poachers. If your interest in Africa then this is a good read.