JORGE ALVES DE LIMA'S BOOKS

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.

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.

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. 

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.

In the 1950s, in Tanganyika, Jorge Alves de Lima stood out as an incomparable hunter, known for his dedication to hunting. Arriving in Africa in 1948, he spent a decade hunting, mainly in search of ivory. With political changes in the 1950s, he adopted a more structured lifestyle, engaging in organized safaris.

Throughout his career until almost 1970, Jorge led hunting expeditions in Tanganyika, Kenya, Mozambique and Angola. His company, Kirongozi Safari, has gained international renown in the hunting community. Even though he explored all of Africa, he considered Tanganyika to be a "hunter's paradise", a remote refuge for adventurous spirits. At the time, chasing lions, buffalo or elephants was a daring experience, conducted without modern resources like telephones, GPS or asphalt.

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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.

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