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Mere love of animals scarcely seems to account for the popularity of these books. It may be noted that most of the nature men are British and resolute mavericks, who have turned their backs on modern, industrialized urban life. Each is very much his own man in a world of...
Commenting on his retirement in 1946, as a protest against the "Exclusive regime of parties," De Gaulle wrote these prophetic words as the passed into 12 years of voluntary isolation: "Every Frenchman, whatever his tendencies had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which...
Masters of the Congo Jungle. A camera roaming through densest Africa arrestingly catches the primordial behavior of man and beast.
To command his madcap mission, Scriptwriter Estridge appoints an aging Kipling Stripling, Captain Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans...
History Incarnate. Like the first two volumes, Salvation is written in bold, sometimes eloquent prose that serves as an admirable carriage for all the De Gaulle qualities: his soldier's selflessness, his sometimes irritating sense of destiny, above all his incorruptible honesty. In another man it would seem intolerable...