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JESOLO SCULTURE DI SABBIA IX - VISIONS OF AFRICA
Safari Dream
by Bill Dow. Billings, Montana, U.S.A.



		Come closer & I'll jump!
Small guy, Big heart. This guy is funny- I don't care who ya are!	His second hitch in Jesolo, Bill also occasionally works stateside for the company. He & I paired up at the World Championships in 2000 & won 3 awards.

<> The Great White Hunter was a notion of Africa that now is less politically correct, yet sport hunting is still an activity in many areas of Africa. This sculpture reflects how the hunter dreams of stalking his prey and eventually slaying the savage beast. Then he poses with his “trophy,” of the kill. The symbolism can't be missed that gives credence to the idea of human beings being the most deadly animals in the jungle.
It may now be prudent to consider that “Great White Hunter” is almost a parody of a phrase, possibly a pejorative, as a reference to white men who explored the “Dark Continent” in the late 19th century, typically in pursuit of big-game hunting in Africa . Their exploits were romanticized in adventure novels that became the so-called "Lost World/Lost Race" genre. Perhaps the first fictional Victorian adventure hero to appear was Allan Quatermain, a great white hunter who appeared in books by H. Rider Haggard. A string of authors produced many stories in this genre since, of which the Indiana Jones series is just one of the most recent. Some famous real-life great white hunters were Denys Finch Hatton (chronicled in "Out of Africa") and Ernest Hemingway.

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