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“Count Felix von Luckner once told me: 'One cannot go out in search of adventure and always find it. Adventure will find you--if it comes at all.' I must confess that I disregarded this advice and went out to meet adventure half-way.”
― Schuyler Jones, Under the African Sun

“After the meal Daisy took Keith and me to the home of two Danish medical missionaries, who had invited us to hear the Queen's Christmas Broadcast. The Danes were two young women who spoke excellent English. They served tea and we ate small cookies, balancing our cups for a refill as we listened to the radio. We stood up for 'God Save the Queen' and then sat down to hear the Queen's words. And there, dear reader, you have a sketch of C. G. K. Lawson and Schuyler Jones--two miserable sinners--standing up to sing Christmas carols with three female missionaries.”
― Schuyler Jones, Under the African Sun

“There were few Europeans in the Zambezi region where we hunted. Aside from Dick and Bill the only other European we saw was a Frenchman who was sitting on the verandah of a hut in Sesheke reading Gone With the Wind. What he was doing there other than reading, I never discovered.”
― Schuyler Jones, A Stranger Abroad: A Memoir

“I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian