Hughes, Julie E., Review of The Last White Hunter: Reminiscences of a Colonial Shikari, in Conservation & Society 17, no. 2 (2019): 224-25. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_18_107.
Anderson, Donald, with Joshua Mathew. The Last White Hunter: Reminiscences of a Colonial Shikari. Mumbai: Indus Source Books, 2018.
The Last White Hunter is the memoir of Donald Anderson (1934–2014), a lifelong resident of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) who chose to stay after India’s independence. Best known as the son of Kenneth Anderson, an internationally-recognised sportsman and popular author, Donald Anderson emerges not only as a figure to compare and contrast with his father, but as an unlikely moral successor to that other giant of colonial shikar, Jim Corbett. At the same time, Anderson’s nostalgia and self-criticism offer few solutions for our modern woes, and his critiques of modernity have been heard before. (Excerpt from the book review)
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