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I refused to dwell on that horrid idea and kept trying to banish it from my thoughts. In many ways, my whole being feels grounded on the Dark Continent, more at home there than in many of the wild places in my own country. Most of my adult life has been spent trying to get there, then languishing to return to the land of thundering herds, magnificent predators, spectacular bird life and captivating landscapes. I started studying, sketching, and dissecting wild animals in grade school, and that urge has never died. I loved college, studying all manner of wildlife, spending much of my time in the, school museum, sketching, learning taxidermy, and eventually, hunting. Somehow, my degree in zoology seemed the perfect launching point for a career drenched in animals.
Hunting is not a family tradition for me. I grew up
