York, William

Born in 1933, Bill York had to wait until he was sixteen years old (an eternity to him) before he could pursue his lifelong dream of hunting on the African continent. After graduating from school two years early and with the support of his uncle, Bill headed to the Sudan to hunt elephant. After two years of roaming through the southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Belgian Congo, York returned to the U.K. to serve his mandatory two years in the British army. His service fulfilled, he again took up residence in Africa, where he did police work for a while. Later, he became licensed as a professional...