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...years Richard had escorted visiting scientists to his parents' dig at Olduvai and taken them around East Africa on courtesy safaris. In 1960, at the age of 17, he left school without graduating and set up a safari business on his own. The business did well, but Richard soon yearned to be back in the digs. Then, in 1963, on a chance flight over Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, he spotted what looked like interesting sediment beds and, encouraged by his parents, set off to explore the area. His first expedition proved to be a success; the team he assembled...
Back in Nairobi, young Leakey began rebuilding his neglected safari business and married Margaret Cropper, a young researcher who had been his mother's assistant at Olduvai. But he could not stay away from anthropology. In 1967 he joined an expedition organized by his father to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Well before it was over he knew he was ready to strike out on his own. Says Leakey: "I already knew how to organize an expedition and how to find fossils. I wanted to have my own show...
...Carlo. "Of course I love her, who wouldn't?" asks Junot. But both the suitor and the princess discount rumors of marriage. "There's so much to see and do, and I'm young," says Caroline. Her top priority at the moment is going on a safari to Africa. No one is saying whether Junot will go along...
...more than 300 ethnic groups, dozens of languages) archipelago of 3,000 mineral-rich islands scattered over 3,000 miles of ocean. Just as it lured Arab traders and Dutch colonialists in centuries past, Indonesia today entices Western and Japanese businessmen interested in a financial killing. The sight of safari-suited foreigners sitting by the pools of Jakarta's luxury hotels, drinking Bintang beer and talking about pipelines, drill sites and tax laws, is testimony to the seductive pull of Indonesia's untapped natural resources...
Hofstetter smeared his tidy creation ever so slightly with two motifs also used by Soll: vaguely evocative hand gestures passing over eyes or mouth, and people carrying one another's weight. Soll welds the two into the most vivid image of last year's "Safari" and this season's "Map": a human chain, people burdened with one another as with heavy loads or corpses, journeying slowly through space. The structure of "Map" has this same open and nothing quality, small-scale events against a large group moving as a whole, detail against a drifting mass. I like...