Carolina QuotesThis is a book about Africa in which I have tried to avoid most of the foolishness, personal heroism, and general exaggeration which usually attend works of this sort. It is a book important only to the writer and has no sociological significance whatsoever.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
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Author's Note
- work
- Horn of the Hunter (1953)
- year
- 1953
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