Christiaan Bakkes

Christiaan Christiaan Bakke Bakke Mathy ( born February 3, 1965 in Vredenburg ) is a South African writer and conservationist.

Life

Christiaan Bakke was born in 1965 as the youngest son of four children of the historian Cas and the writer Margaret Bakke in Vredenburg. His brother C. Johan Bakke is a professor of management at the University of the Western Cape and also the author. In 1983 he enrolled at the Pro Arte Art School in Pretoria.

In February 1994, a folgendschwereren accident of the young Rangers Bakke caught in the Kruger National Park, the attention of the public. In an attack by two crocodiles while swimming in a pond at Timbavati he lost his left arm up to the elbow joint, but not his affection for the African wilderness, which he illustrated henceforth in personal experience reports of his alter egos Mathys Stoffel. The left-hander had to re-learn the writing and first wrote his first reports by hand before someone took off him writing on a computer. Even the very important painting him before he took later on again. After his full recovery, which lasted until 1996, he traveled five months backpacking long from Cape Town on the west coast to Namibia, Zambia, Malawi across Africa. In Zambia, he contracted malaria, but got in Malawi the necessary medical care and there was at least not the dreaded diarrhea. Although he had broken his hand, he went on to experience the Serengeti. Just as he went on a boat through Uganda, he received his mother a message that he could work for the next three years for the WWF in Kaokoland in Namibia. Subsequently, he was responsible for a travel company Safaris to the Skeleton Coast and Damaraland, who were committed to an environmental program.

In his 2008 published biographical work, based in part on earlier works and was first translated from Afrikaans into English, In Bushveld and Desert: A Game Ranger 's Life, reported Chris Bakke of these years. 2008, his wife Emsie Verwey, whom he married in 2003 worked, and he he as a leader and manager, said he has already passed the mountain gorilla safaris to Uganda for safari companies.

Bakke emphasized that his literary work is dedicated not only South Africa but the entire African continent: " Africa is my continent. Ek Voel tuis in Namibië, Uganda en Mosambiek, ZAMBIE en Tanzanie. Ek Beperk my never dead Suid -Afrika never. Ek is' n Africans in the ware sin van the woord. "- Africa is my continent. I feel at home in Namibia, Uganda and Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. I consider myself not only as a South African. I am an African in the truest sense of the word.

Works

• The long- Pad Stoffel van Mathysen. Human & Rousseau 1998, ISBN 978-0798137805
• Stoffel in the wilderness. Human & Rousseau 2000, ISBN 978-0798140676
• Skuilplek. Human & Rousseau 2002, ISBN 9780798142298
• Stoffel by the afdraaipad, Human & Rosseau 2004, ISBN 978-0798144308 ( Nominated for M -Net literary prize for short format texts, 2005)
• Stoffel se veldnotas. Human & Rosseau 2007, ISBN 978-0798148146
• In Bushveld and Desert: A Game Ranger 's Life. Translated into English by Elsa Silke. NB Publishers 1st edition 2008, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-0798149280