Philip Percival

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Philip Hope Percival was a renowned white hunter and early safari guide in colonial Kenya. During his career he guided prominent figures like Teddy Roosevelt, Baron Rothchild, and Ernest Hemingway on African hunts. In fact, Hemingway modeled the fictional hunter Robert Wilson, in his story "“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" after Percival. Percival also mentored several other hunters of renown like Sydney Downey and Harry Selby.

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