Horn of the Hunter : The Story of an African Hunt

Book Description
The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari in East Africa in the 1950s. Ruark's philosophies are intertwined in the hunting stories to make unforgettable reading.


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Ruark's most sought-after book is back in print. In the early 1950s famous newspaper columnist Robert Ruark and his wife, Virginia, went to British East Africa (now Kenya and Tanzania) for a nine-week safari with their professional hunter, Harry Selby. The three of them, along with a group of native runners, a Jeep, and an old lorry, ventured into the bush for an adventure none of them soon forgot-and neither will you! In this book Ruark shares with you the ferocity of the wounded buffalo and the acid sweat of fear-no other book will give you the "feel" of Africa like this one can.


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The safari started in Nairobi, where the Ruarks hired Harry Selby, one of the best professional hunters in the business. With him came a group of native runners and bearers, a jeep, and a broken-down lorry. Their first camp site was on a grassy knoll overlooking the Grumeti River, where they pitched their tents beneath big thorn acacias, and it was here that Ruark was to meet and conquer his first two lions and his record-breaking buffalo. It was here, too, that Ruark came to love and understand the hideously grinning, carrion-eating hyenas--fisi, the natives laughingly called them, remembering as they laughed the times fisi had attacked them, asleep, and tried to eat their faces. The Ruarks came also to know and understand the land in which they hunted. Everywhere they looked there was life. And wherever there was life there was the threat of death.


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