Alan Black. Any additional literature out there?

JvW said:

There's a chapter on Alan Black in Tony Dyer's Men for All Seasons, published by Rowland Ward.

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Kouprey said:

I am also very interested in Alan Black, what a character he must have been.
One good chapter on Alan Black is in the book "Bwana Bunduki" by Emily Host. A superb book about the old White Hunters, written in the 1940s or 1950s when Host could still interview many of the old hunters. But the book was released much later, in 2007 in New Zealand.
If i remember correctly, Mrs. Host claims that Black actually wrote his memoirs. But the publishing didn't work out and the manuscript was lost.
Alan Black is also mentioned in several other books like Eric Rundgren "Inside Safari Hunting", in "The Elephant People" by Dennis Holman or "Legends of the African Frontier" by Chandler.
I heard that the late Peter Beard had access to Black's photos and library and used them in his books, but this is just hearsay.

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woodsrunner said:

Very good, thanks! I will look for this material. Isn't it interesting you mention Peter Beard, my wife and I were just yesterday morning going trough Eyelids of Morning from the bookshelf, and i was describing to her just what singular men both Beard and Graham were in their time.

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Kouprey said:

Indeed! Beard was also a person that i'd have loved to meet. Who else could claim to be a friend of Tania Blixen, big game hunters like Glen Cottar or artists like Francis Bacon or the Rolling Stones... ? There are two books about PB: "Wild" by Graham Boynton and "The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard" by Jon Bowermaster.
I have a few of Beard's books that he "signed". He dipped his hand in red color, smeared it on the front page, scribbled a poem or drawing beside it and glued bird feathers and leaves on same page... Those books i will surely keep, they mean a lot to me.

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