Drakensberg Ranger - the new book from Platanna Press

	Shadows on the Stream Bed
	Curtis & Boulton’s South African Fly Fishing Clinic
	The Elements of Fly Tying by Tom Sutcliffe
	Curtis & Boulton’s Saltwater Fly Fishing Clinic
	Curtis & Boulton’s Yellowfish Fly Fishing Clinic
	Fishing the Margins
	The Rapture of the River, The Autobiography of a South African Fisherman

Drakensberg Ranger
By George Hughes

These memoirs are dedicated to Bill Barnes
and all the other Drakensberg staff who,
over many years, brought great joy into my life
whilst making immense contributions to the conservation
of the mountains.

David Cook writes in the Foreword:
"When the author, a friend and colleague of long standing, approached me to write a foreword to this account of his life as a game ranger at Giant's Castle Game Reserve in the early 1960s, I agreed without
a moment's hesitation.

The reason for this is simple. Quite apart from the fact that his narrative traces the early adventures, trials and tribulations of a young man about to embark on a career in wildlife conservation, George
Hughes has brought to life my own memories of game ranging during those same years when I took up a post at Giant's Castle offered to me by Colonel Jack Vincent, then the Director of the Natal Parks Board. Like the author, I had not the faintest idea of what duties I would have to perform in a part of Natal that I had only once fleetingly visited, and neither had I any real practical experience or formal training in nature conservation. I was a greenhorn in every sense of the word."