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Creative Abdication. The "we" are 4,500,000 tribesmen who speak such languages as Dagomba, Akan, Ewe and Ga and are scattered across a rectangular patch of jungle, swamp and bushland that juts into the westward bulge of Africa, north of the coast that was once called the "White Man's Grave." Seven out of ten are illiterate, more than half believe in witchcraft, yet the happy-go-lucky Gold Coasters have been chosen by Imperial Britain to pioneer its boldest experiment in African home rule. In 1951 the British gave the Gold Coast its first democratic constitution; last...
Oberjohann made his first capture when a cow elephant charged him in swamp water. She turned aside when his native boy screamed, and charged the boy instead. The boy ducked under water. So did Oberjohann, and the cow ran off. Her baby, left behind, accepted Oberjohann's rope, and off they went, on the double, toward dry land. Oberjohann, knowing that mother elephants do not desert their children, waited for trouble...
...Hevens, the Metasequoia hasn't anything to do with redwoods; sequoia is a magic word in California for fund raising," Merrill retorted, and added, "any alliance must be with the swamp cyprus...
...wandered about or scribbled postcards telling "All good Democrats" to register. All about, the flexible-bracket fluorescent lamps hummed busily. In the adjoining room, a cluster of men reclined in leather chairs watching baseball on a television set. We consulted with the Publicity man's secretary who promised to swamp us with handouts as soon as the printing presses began grinding them...
Lure of the Wilderness has some colorful shots of the Okefenokee scenery and the swamp's crocodiles, snakes, owls, bears and boars. Among the human actors, the one who seems most at home in the swamp is Walter Brennan, in a repeat of his role in the 1941 Swamp Water, of which Lure of the Wilderness is a rather soggy remake...