Good Reads

[C.O.B.]

I just finished Something of Value by Robert Ruark. Its a fictional account of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. If you like Africa this is a great read.

[Marc Retallack]

Richard

If you enjoyed Ruark's "Something of Value", I'd suggest you pick up "Uhuru" when you have an opportunity. It also is fiction set several years after the Mau Mau uprisings. It is more or less a sequel to "Something of Value".

Cheers
Marcus

[Labowner]

Dean, I just finished Bare November Days, If you get a copy and hold onto it long enough I think you will rely enjoy it.

[QUOTE=E Robert Fabian;5736]Dean, I just finished Bare November Days, If you get a copy and hold onto it long enough I think you will rely enjoy it. I am not familiar with the book Dean "mis-placed" at the recent Vintagers gathering. Is it mainly about grouse hunting, which I surmise may be our friend Dean's main passion when afield with a Parker? Who wrote it? I like the late Havilah Babcock and his stories about hunting quail and fishing for bream in a long-gone Southern era. My favorites of all his great stories are "Slim Boggins' Mistake" and "Tennesse"--I never read any of Ruark's African stories as other mentioned herein, but his classic "The Old Man and the Boy" is timeless.

[Labowner]

Francis, Bare Nov. Days was written by four authors Gene Hill, George Bird Evans, Michael McIntosh and Tom Davis. Short stories on Grouse and Mud Bat hunting and their dogs.