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...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Robinson) whose wilderness hideout looks like paradise enough...
Rhino! is a brilliantly scenic, instructive, timely and entertaining tale of African adventure. The hero (Robert Gulp) is a zoologist who dedicates his skills to the preservation of African wildlife; the villain (Harry Guardino) is a poacher who devotes his energies to their annihilation. Told that the villain is an excellent guide, the hero in all innocence hires him to hunt down a pair of rare white rhinos and transport them to a game preserve, where they may safely multiply. The villain, of course, secretly intends to make off with the hero's pharmic rifle, a device that fires...
When the fox bites a village dog and thus creates the threat of an epidemic of rabies, Brace finds himself more and more at odds with society. Contemptuous of the German authorities trying to control the disease, he strikes up a strange alliance with an itinerant shepherd and game poacher whose sheep are suspected of infection. Defending him, Brace finds himself in a shooting showdown with a posse of outraged villagers...
...class of 155. He was delighted, since all he wanted of the army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for transfer to Africa finally came through in 1926, Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace...