I Married A Hunter by Michael, Marjorie - 1000

Popular Book Club, 1000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4.75" X 7.5. h/b 216 pages, condition is very good, slight tanning to the pages. Marjorie Michael and her famous husband, George Michael, are already well known to a wide public in Britain and America for their popular television series "The Michaels in Africa." Now, in "I Married A Hunter" she paints a vivid, revealing picture of what it is like to share the life of a man who has packed more excitement into an average week's work than most people experience in a whole lifetime. All the fascinating details of their domestic life are interwoven with thrilling accounts of strange experiences. which range from a visit to a native wedding to an encounter with a villainous diamond smuggler. She tells how it feels to watch her husband being charged by stampeding elephants, to be with her children in a frail canoe whilst being menaced by a raging bull hippo, and of the exciting experiences of running a home where a family pet may be anything from a baby elephant to an eagle. The whole book abounds with little-known jungle- lore and strange facts about the complex and savage life of the Africans who live beyond the fringe of civilization. But perhaps the most intimate picture of all is of her versatile husband. Lightheartedly, she shows us the business man, film producer, musician, carpenter, author, and naturalist, "all of whom," she says, "I married, when I married a hunter.