THE MASTER HUNTER
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No Encalço de Novos Horizontes
May 2017
Price: R$ 250 + shipping - xx pages
Written in Portuguese - Printed in Brazil
In his most recent book, Jorge Alves de Lima reports his adventures throughout Tanganyika, India and the Pantanal, at a time when hunting trips were planned with great anticipation and lasted between 60 and 120 days, or even longer. Finally, the author talks a bit more about his life at his ranch, Fazenda Kirongozi, in the countryside of São Paulo, where he maintains tigers and lions. No Encalço de Novos Horizontes also includes contributions from Brian Herne, Anton Allen, Derrick Dunn and Richard Dupont.
Visões da África -
Angola e Moçambique
December 2015
Price: R$ 350 + shipping - 612 pages
Written in Portuguese - Printed in Brazil
In this book, which is divided into two volumes – one dedicated to Mozambique and the other to Angola – Jorge Alves de Lima recounts his adventures in the African territory and some of the most exciting safaris in the company of his clients.
Kirongozi, as Alves de Lima became known during his time as a hunter, talks about the development of game reserves, reports his nightly encounters with some of the most dangerous wild animals in the world and reminisces about the first rumors of the man-eating lions.
The author also pays homage to important figures of the Mozambican wildlife. The book includes stories contributed by other renowned White Hunters, such as Hugo Seia, Tony Sanchez-Ariño, and Richard Mason.
O Chamado da África
2014
Price: R$ 99.90 + shipping - 225 pages
Written in Portuguese - Printed in Brazil
After flying in a DC-3 for three days, Jorge Alves de Lima hit the dusty streets of Fort Archambault, today Sarh, Chad. For the next 21 years, he would live from hunting, exclusively from it, on the African continent. In Fort Archambault, he worked for a Portuguese merchant, met some white hunters and, more importantly, learned the Sango - the language of the region. He walked 1,200 kilometers in search of elephants through the forests and savannas of Bogangolo and Bossangoa.
The Call of Africa is a book that cannot be read outside its historical context: Equatorial Africa during the 40s and 50s through the eyes of a professional hunter.
All books have a limited edition of 1,000 numbered and signed copies
No Encalço de Novos Horizontes
May 2017
Price: R$ 250 + shipping - 438 pages
Written in Portuguese - Printed in Brazil
In his most recent book, Jorge Alves de Lima reports his adventures throughout Tanganyika, India, and the Pantanal, at a time when hunting trips were planned with great anticipation and lasted between 60 and 120 days or even longer. The author delves on his life at his ranch, Fazenda Kirongozi, in the countryside of São Paulo, where he maintains tigers and lions. No Encalço de Novos Horizontes also includes contributions from Brian Herne, Anton Allen, Derrick Dunn and Richard Dupont.
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Visões da África -
Angola e Moçambique
December 2015
Price: R$ 350 + shipping - 612 pages
Written in Portuguese - Printed in Brazil
In this book, which is divided into two volumes – one dedicated to Mozambique and the other to Angola – Jorge Alves de Lima recounts his adventures in the African territory and some of the most exciting safaris in the company of his clients.
Kirongozi, as Alves de Lima became known during his time as a hunter, talks about the development of game reserves, reports his nightly encounters with some of the most dangerous wild animals in the world and reminisces about the first rumors of the man-eating lions.
The author also pays homage to important figures of the Mozambican wildlife. The book includes stories contributed by other renowned White Hunters, such as Hugo Seia, Tony Sanchez-Ariño, and Richard Mason.
Ship Internationally
Ship to Brazil
O Chamado da África
2014
Price: R$ 99.90 + shipping - 225 pages
Written in Portuguese - Printed in Brazil
After flying in a DC-3 for three days, Jorge Alves de Lima hit the dusty streets of Fort Archambault, today Sarh, Chad. For the next 21 years, he would live from hunting, exclusively from it, on the African continent. In Fort Archambault, he worked for a Portuguese merchant, met some white hunters and, more importantly, learned the Sango - the language of the region. He walked 1,200 kilometers in search of elephants through the forests and savannas of Bogangolo and Bossangoa.
The Call of Africa is a book that cannot be read outside its historical context: Equatorial Africa during the 40s and 50s through the eyes of a professional hunter.
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On the Tracks of the Big Five in Angola
2013
Price: US$ 90 + shipping - 334 pages
Written in English - Printed in the United States
In this riveting collection of hunting stories, Alves de Lima describes in great detail his many trips through the heart of Africa and Brazil in pursuit of the most beautiful—and dangerous—animals on the planet. Faced with the perils of wildlife in addition to local conflicts and international politics, life on the hunt was always a challenge, and Alves de Lima was ever the man to rise to the occasion.
Accompanied by hundreds of stunning photographs as well as first-hand accounts of his fellow hunters, including such luminaries as Bill Negley, Hugo Seia, Tony Sanchez-Ariño, Óscar Aníbal Piçarra de Castro Cardoso, Alberto de Castilho, Rubens Ribeiro Marx Junior, and Richard Mason, this book takes the reader on a safari of their own, resplendent with all of the trials and the glory of hunting big game. It is a journey of intrigue and of a life well lived and full of daring: the life of a true adventurer.
Chasing the Horizon:
Hunting in East Africa and India
2010 - Trophy Room Books
Price: US$ 150 + shipping - 278 pages
Written in English - Printed in the United States
DeLima arrived in Africa in 1948 and for 10 years he hunted mainly on his own and primarily for ivory. Then, in the 1950s, when new regulations and changing political winds foreshadowed changes in his nomadic lifestyle, Jorge became involved in the more structured safari business. During his career, which extended until almost 1970, he took clients hunting in Tanganyika and Kenya by forming associations with other professionals, and also had concessions of his own in Mozambique and Angola. His Kirongozi Safari Company was widely known and highly regarded throughout the then international hunting community and his Mozambique company later merged with Werner von Alvensleben's Mozambique Safariland. Although Jorge has been all over Africa, he still described Tanganyika as a hunters’ paradise. It was, in Jorge’s words, “a hidden and distant dot on the map capable of sheltering and protecting any mortal imbued with the spirit of adventure from the bitter realities of the present.” Those were the days when standing to the charge of a lion, buffalo or elephant was a courageous and daring experience and when safaris were conducted without telephone or tarmac.
In the Company of Adventure
2006 - Trophy Room Books
Price: US$ 150 + shipping - 335 pages
Written in English - Printed in the United States
In 1948 he got married to Africa and never looked back.
Born into a wealthy, almost aristocratic, family, Jorge Alves de Lima could have been, or had, anything he wanted. So, in 1948, after graduating from college, he headed for Africa, specifically the vast expanse that was then French Equatorial Africa. For the next twenty plus years he would travel through no less than eight different countries as a hunter, a professional hunter, an ivory hunter, an explorer, the founder of not one but two safari companies in two different countries and, above all, as an adventurer.
After the second world war there was a small window of opportunity when a big game hunter with courage and desire could venture to and through the great African gamelands and find much of the country as it had been 50 or even 100 years before.
Jorge hunted in French Equatorial Africa that at the time included Tchad, Oubangui-Chari, and Congo-Brazzavile. He also hunted in Sudan, Zambia (Barotseland) and Tanzania and founded safari companies both in Angola and Mozambique. He later combined companies with the noted werner von Alvensleben in Mozambique; in fact, Safariland’s second main camp, after Ruark Camp, was named Alves de Lima Camp.