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ISBN10: 1571570233
ISBN13: 9781571570239
Publisher: Safari Press
Published: Jan 28 1997
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781571570239
Publisher: Safari Press
Published: Jan 28 1997
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
In the early 1950s, newspaper columnist Robert Ruark and his wife, Virginia, went on safari in Kenya and Tanganyika with professional hunter Harry Selby. They left Nairobi in a Land Rover they called Jessica, followed by an old lorry carrying a dozen men. On the first night out Selby shot a Thomson's gazelle for the crew's supper. Ruark had no Kenya license and two days to wait for Tanganyika, and he was glad of it. He wanted to see the country first. Ruark writes about the wounded buffalo and the sweat of fear, and about the men who hunted with him. He dedicated the book to Selby and to fourteen African men of the safari, each by name. In his author's note he says he tried to leave out the foolishness, heroics, and exaggeration of most books about Africa. This is a hunter's account of colonial East Africa, written in and of its time. The book includes 32 drawings by Ruark and 32 pages of photographs.
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