enyway … a jump is a jump
This book was conceived by Brian and Verity Thornton as a memorial to their son, Giles, who was murdered in Kenya ten years ago.
Giles enjoyed a style of life of his own choosing: an adventurous, wild spirit took him on some epic journeys in the Africa that he grew to love. Along the way he turned his hands to things that many of us only dream about. Working alone with African tribesmen capturing rare species of animals for educative filming and for setting up new breeding programmes; paragliding and free fall parachuting over the open bush; wild and lonely motorcycle safaris in uncharted country; culling zebra; surviving close encounters with lions; sleeping on the wrong side of the lip of a volcano and charitable work with the UN and ‘Save the Rhino’.
But it is also the story of a man with a deep love of wildlife, native cultures, the freedom of the air and a deep sense of history. A man who had special communications skills (despite his dyslexia) and made friends wherever he went – friends who turned up in their hundreds to witness his ‘bush’ cremation in Kenya at the spot that he loved the best.
“He was immediately likeable – his humour was infectious. What a man!”
Alan Root
“To me he was an enigma: part Englishman, part Comanche – birdman, gaucho. I never met a truly free spirit – Giles came close.”
Roland Purcell
“If I had been born at the turn of the century, the only things I would miss would be my motorbike and my paraglider. Then again, I would be happy to give up both to have been in Africa at that time.”
Giles Thornton
The book was published on 11th September 2008.
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01/06/2009: THE BOOK IS NOW OUT OF PRINT