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Uhuru:
Uhuru (the word means 'freedom' in Swahili is on everybody's lips, black or white, in Kenya today. The African no longer says 'jambo' as a greeting. Instead, he says 'uhuru'. Soon, as the title of this momentous novel, it will be familiar throughout the world.
This book is an unforgettable picture of Kenya at the crossroads. It opens with the execution of Peter Poole, the first white man ever hanged in Kenya for killing a black. It ends as white political rule comes to an end in Kenya.

The Honey Badger:
At the height of his fame, Alec Barr walked out on his wife and into a frenetic life of wine, women and war. This is the searing story of a man desperately in trouble with himself. As Alec Barr searches for a purpose to his existence, you follow him and his women through the feverish glamour of wartime Washington, into blitzed and battered London, among Manhattan's jet-set jungles - and into the real jungles of Africa.

Horn of the Hunter:
Ruark's most sought-after book is back in print. In the early 1950's 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 runners, a Jeep, and an old lorry, ventured into the bush for an adventure none of them soon forget—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.

Old Man's Boy grows up:
The year 1957 marked the publication of Robert Ruark's best seller, The Old Man and the Boy, a tale of "infinite warmth and wisdom, love and understanding". It told of the Boy, Ruark himself, and the Old Man, his grandfather, as they roamed the North Carolina outdoors together, savoring the sights, sounds, and smells of the earth. As they explored the woods and fished the streams, the Old Man talked and the Boy listened. And as he listened, the Boy learned.
The Old Man is now gone from the earth, but not from the memory of the Boy. In the pages of this present book, the Boy has grown up to new adventures, to college, to a seaman's berth on a North Atlantic freighter, to African safari's, and treks to the world's far corners—and to other dogs and boys who now follow him. But the Old Man is still there. He is there in anecdotal memories awakened by the sight of a tiger in Africa, a dog in Spain, or by the tantalizing smell of a hearty meal prepared...


Was verzoek:
snarfy | 8JnpEQ op zaterdag 2 december 2017 | 18:34 
Als je ooit iets vindt van de schrijver Robert Ruark, speciaal 
de 2 boeken over de Mau-Mau, en in het Engels dan houd ik mij 
zeer aanbevolen. Ook Poor no More van deze schrijver is een geweldig boek. 
Ik had ze vroeger, maar tijdens een verhuizing zijn ze verdwenen...
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