Africa Through Our Eyes

“Africa Through Our Eyes” is a fascinating book, very interesting and of agreeable reading. Its author, Dr. Rubén Jaén-Centeno is a prominent Venezuelan cardiovascular surgeon and a well known outdoor sportsman, with many big game fishing and hunting trips all over the world. His several safaris to Africa are described and also the ones of Mr. Alfredo Fonseca B., another Venezuelan big game hunter who has traveled to Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Sudan and the Republique Centre Africaine.This book is not only the account of all the adventures in those safaris, but also has many historic references about the first and dangerous expeditions to that continent , which took place in the last part of the XIX century and the first years of the XX century . The reader will appreciate the extraordinary courage and determination of the European explorers, naturalists and professional hunters, who opened the road to construct the modern Africa and established the rules of the hunting sport and the basis of conservationism. Read more