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...mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos just charge. Gazelles, zebras and wildebeests are timorous but hardheaded: if a car gets between them and their water hole, adieu auto! As for the little creatures-like 150-lb. wart hogs-a driver can only keep his fingers crossed. "They're impossible to see until you hit them," explained TIME Stringer Henry...
Together & Up! In the classic tradition of auto racing, the Safari ends where it begins. From Nairobi, through Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and back to the Kenyan capital, there are 78 check points, and entrants are chaperoned like a seventh-grade dance...
...Safari churned to a close, faint clanking noises were still heard from 16 cars-some from Europeans desperately attempting repairs. They shouldn't have bothered. In twelve years, no non-African has ever won, and the record may forever be intact. Last week's winners came close to denting it: two Sikh brothers named Joginder and Jaswant Singh, in their secondhand Swedish Volvo with 50,000 miles on the odometer. Of course, they have lived all their lives in Nairobi. When they coasted cozily home, the swinging Singhs were hoisted onto the roof of their car and paraded...
...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...
...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...