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🗓️ 24 January 2025
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0:00.0 | I want to read to you a few paragraphs from one of my favorite books of all time. |
0:10.2 | The title of the book is called White Hunters, the Golden Age of African Safaris. |
0:16.2 | The author's name is Brian Hearn, and I'll drop a link below in the description so that you can find this book on |
0:22.4 | Amazon if you're a guy you'll love this book it really is great I've read it twice I'll listen to it |
0:29.1 | on audible from time to time and I was reading it this morning and I thought this is such a good |
0:34.4 | few paragraphs that I thought I'd share it with you all. So here we go. |
0:38.2 | The short mysterious life of Fritz Schindler. Not much is known about Fritz Schindler's life |
0:44.9 | before he arrived in British East Africa, and even the date of his arrival is uncertain. |
0:51.3 | It is thought by some historians that Schindler arrived in 1906. What is known for certain |
0:58.5 | about Schindler is that he was not what he claimed to be when he turned up in Nairobi. The tall, |
1:04.8 | rangy stranger said he was a head waiter and a hotel baggage porter, but fact, he was almost certainly an aristocrat. |
1:13.9 | After his death, a rare photograph was discovered among Schindler's things that showed him as a youth |
1:20.4 | in the uniform of a commander of a crack regiment of Hungarian hussars. For a man as young as this to be in command of such an elite |
1:29.9 | corps is a fact that argues he was of royal blood. People who got to know easygoing Schindler |
1:37.5 | in East Africa quickly realized that here was no ordinary person. He was an absolutely outstanding rifle shot, no matter whether the target was stationary |
1:48.3 | or moving, coming or going. |
1:51.4 | With a heavy rifle, Fritz once shattered half a dozen roof tiles torn off a building |
1:56.8 | on government road and thrown into the air by a willing accomplice, and he was a magnificent |
2:02.9 | horseman, a trick rider who could gallop his horse as he stood in the saddle. Schindler was |
2:09.7 | reckoned to be the best polo player in the colony, which is saying something in a horse-crazy society, |
2:16.7 | such as Nairobi. Herbert Pop Binks, |
2:20.9 | Nairobi's first professional photographer, once watched in fascination as Fritz casually, |
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