The Adventurous Life of a Vagabond Hunter: From South America to East Africa, the Life of a Professional Hunter

by Sten Cedergren

Overview

Sten Cedergren set out to become a cowboy at an early age—first stop, Paraguay. After further roaming, he landied in Keny and joined White Hunters Ltd., in addition to doing elephant control work. Today in his early eighties he is still hunting elephant in Zimbabwe!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571574244
Publisher:	Safari Press, Inc.
Publication date:	08/02/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	326
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Sten Cedergren was born 27 November 1919 in Sweden. As a young man, he worked on a cattle ranch in Chaco Boreal, Paraguay. During the Korean War, he joined the United States Army in 1952 and served in the 82nd Airborne Division. Later, he served in the Special Forces in Bad Tölz, Germany. In 1955 he began working in Kenya for Carr-Hartley, a well-known game catcher. The next year, he joined White Hunters in Nairobi, and he worked as a control officer for the game department between safaris. Mr. Cedergren has hunted extensively in East Africa, the Sudan, and Botswana. He moved to Zimbabwe in 1977 and farmed coffee until 1980. Since then, he has been a professional game hunter in Zimbabwe, mainly in the Zambezi Valley. Sten and his wife, Lolo, lived in Harare, Zimbabwe, with their two children.