A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola - Hardcover

John Frederick Walker is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Afield, Forbes, and New York, as well as numerous other magazines. He has been traveling to Africa since 1986.

"A story of war, politics, conservation and the giant sable’s prospects." -- Dan Barber, The Dallas Morning News

"Part Angolan history, part natural science,part analysis of the United States’ sorry role in the conflict, and part adventure tale." -- Mark Azzara, The Sunday Republican

"Walker brings to life a time largely past.His tale of troubled Angola and its noble beast is worth a look." -- Anthony Day, The Los Angeles Times

"Walker fuses colonial and contemporary history with his own thrilling adventures ...to deliver a book that encapsulates like no other." -- Tarquin Hall, author of To the Elephant Graveyard

"Walker writes with insight and compassion....A Certain Curve of Horn underscores the sanctity of all life." -- Ed Voves, The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Certain Curve takes us on a quest for the grandest antelope. . . . At its heart is the quintessential African story. -- Tim Flannery

In his examination of [the giant sable], Walker brings together science, politics, and adventure in an engaging, often disquieting narrative. -- Bloomberg Personal Finance, December 2002/January 2003

In relating the saga of this animal and the human landscape it inhabits, John Frederick Walker informs, enlightens and entrances. -- Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map that Changed the World

It is, in essence, an adventure story, one that embraces many of the themes and conflicts of modern Africa. -- Wildlife Conservation

[Walker] embarks on a fascinating quest for this creature whose very existence has become a symbol of the conservation movement. -- Smoke