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“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.”
― A Stranger Abroad: A Memoir
― A Stranger Abroad: A Memoir
“I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“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.”
― Under the African Sun
― Under the African Sun
“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.”
― Under the African Sun
― Under the African Sun
“And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
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