TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Thomas McIntyre

Preface to the 2020 Edition

[Ruark Column]

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Life Among the Giants

2. The University of North Carolina

3. Learning the Ropes

4. Gone to Sea

5. Trials of Babylon

6. The Hard True Life

Safari: Horn of the Hunter

7. Kenya in Black and White

8. Robert Ruark Among the Mau Mau

Mau Mau: Something of Value

9. Home No More

10. Miles and Miles of Bloody Africa

11. Ruark & Hemingway

12. Exploration & Farewell

Winds of Change: Uhuru

13. Bwana Bob

Other Days: The Old Man and the Boy & The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older

14. The Lion at Twilight

Self Portrait: The Honey Badger

15. Ruark & Selby

16. A Tusk and a Book

Epilogue: A View from a Tall Hill

Bibliography

Index