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...just like old times down South for onetime Playgirl Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder, now the wife of Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and proprietress of an Austrian resort hotel. On a recent safari to Italian Somaliland, it seems, Honeychile bought herself a slave girl. "I'm from Georgia, you know, in the Deep South, and we used to have slaves there," explained Honeychile. "The sweet little girl was only 16, and her father wanted to sell her to some old man. I just jumped into the affair and outbid the other buyer." But Honeychile still has one problem...
...Darkening Continent. On the first leg of his 1952 reporting safari for Inside Africa, Gunther awoke to another nightmare: he was going blind. With cataracts closing over both eyes, he explored the darkening continent for 10^ months and 40,000 miles without even a weekend off, ground out nine magazine articles on the road. Unable to read his minute reporter's scribble, he could never have finished the assignment if willowy, tough-fibered Jane had not been along. She scrawled notes on interviews, digested reams of background material, took thousands of photographs for Gunther to pore over back...
...present literary rate of exchange, one African safari equals roughly one novel about Mau Mau trouble. Most such books shine only a feeble light into an area where burning racial hatred has obscured the underlying questions of right and wrong-or else they glare with a Ruark-like, eyewitness sensationalism. It may be a virtue of The Leopard that its author, Victor Reid, has never been in Africa...
...most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...
...will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...