2007.
350 sider, indb.
Robert Ruark (1915-1965) ranks in the minds of most discerning readers as the finest outdoor writer ever to grace the American literary scene. His is an enduring fame, thanks primarily to three books, The Old Man and the Boy, The Old Man?s Boy Grows Older, and an African classic, Horn of the Hunter. Ruark, besides being the author of these blockbuster novels and an immensely popular newspaper columnist, was also a satirist of considerable skill and a tireless bon vivant. Fame and the ability to crunch out a prodigious amount of first-rate prose on his battered portable typewriter brought him considerable fortune. Alan Ritchie, who faithfully served as Ruark?s personal secretary for the last fourteen years of Ruark?s life, left a text of some 766 typed pages about Robert Ruark's life. Jim Casada condensed this monumental work, and though the book covers all of Ruark?s life, it primarily focuses on the years when Ritchie was in Ruark?s employ. Ritchie understood the troubled, talented writer, and his writings leave us with a deeply moving, insightful record of his employer, the man he knew. Legendary African hunter Harry Selby, Ruark?s personal PH, wrote the foreword. The book also features sixty photographs of Ruark.
