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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career,...
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Leon Courtney, ladies' man and former lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and high-profile safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. On the eve of war, Leon is recruited by his uncle, commander of the British forces in East Africa, who asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto's mistress, Eva, who...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st world ed.
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217 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Anna's family hope that the safari holiday in South Africa will help her to get over her beloved husband's death, and come to terms with widowhood. No one is more surprised than Anna herself when she finds herself strongly attracted to a fellow member of the group, Lewis Masters, and despite her initial resistance, she is soon drawn into a new relationship. Back home, however, Anna is deeply perturbed when she learns that a young woman in Lewis's...
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Golden Gryphon Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
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xi, 278 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Resnick's avid interest in safaris and Africa are highlighted in this collection of his futuristic hunting stories; several of the stories were directly inspired from his personal stalking of game, with camera and not gun, experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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"The third book in the Mbuno & Pero series pulls terror from headlines to create a gripping international thriller for readers of The Sandman. Expert safari guide Mbuno and wildlife television producer Pero Baltazar are filming on Lake Rudolf in Northern Kenya, East Africa, when they receive news that Mbuno's son, himself an expert guide, has been kidnapped while on a safari five hundred miles away in Tanzania. After gathering clues and resources...
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Choose your own adventure volume 38
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Chooseco
Pub. Date
©2011
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137 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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A safari trip to Kenya leads to a search for one of the rarest animals on Earth, in a book where the reader determines the path and ending of the story.
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