Did You Really Shoot The Television? - Plot & Excerpts
TENBush Fever The success of Eagle, and of its Special Investigator column, offered Mac a splendid opportunity. He had almost exhausted the scope for undertaking Boy’s Own adventures close to home, and had little difficulty convincing the editor, Marcus Morris, that he should head for the Dark Continent in search of more extravagant excitements. He spent hours in earnest conclave with Lewis beside the library fire of the Savage Club in Carlton House Terrace. ‘Always remember,’ said the old hunter, ‘wild Africa is not on your side – you are irrelevant, at best.’ After much musing, Mac devised a challenge which might justify in print the expenditure of a significant amount of Hulton Press’s money. He would cross the Kalahari Desert in British Bechuanaland – modern Botswana – to search out the last of the ancient bushmen of the region, by then hunted and persecuted to the brink of extinction. He christened his quest ‘The Search for the Little Yellow Men’. One morning in 1954, accompanied by his favourite photographer Chris Ware and Lewis’s old big-game rifles, he embarked for Salisbury, Rhodesia, on a BOAC flight which in those exotic days stopped en route at Rome, Cairo, Khartoum, Entebbe and Nairobi, before landing at what was still the heart of Britain’s African empire.
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