Eleven tales, told by adventurer, explorer, photographer and writer Peter Beard to his daughter, about life, about living, about Africa. He describes Nairobi in the 1950s, still a quaint, eccentric pioneer town, where rhinoceros roamed the streets and local residents went to the movies in pajamas. And he writes of his forty-acre patch of bush called Hog Ranch, named for the families of warthogs who wandered into camp, also populated with waterbuck, suni, dik-diks, leopard, giraffe, and occasionally lion and buffalo.
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