Journalist Robert Ruark tells of the friendship between a young boy and his grandfather as they hunt and fish in North Carolina

A collection of magazine stories and essays, fictional and nonfiction, and previously unpublished, that Ruark wrote in the 1950s and 1960s.

Peter McKenzie is a professional hunter in colonial Kenya whose idyllic life is disrupted by the Mau Mau Emergency. The emergency puts a severe strain on the lives of farmers in rural areas, including McKenzie and his new bride, and he and his fellow farmers and hunters are forced to kill Mau Maus rather than buffalo and elephant.

A Carolina youth's rise to fame and fortune as an industrial tycoon, and the effect upon him.

The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari in East Africa in the 1950s. Ruark's philosophies are intertwined in the hunting stories to make unforgettable reading.

Lyonel Trouillot?s harrowing novel depicts a night of blazing violence in modern-day Port-au-Prince and recalls hundreds of years of violence stretching back even before the birth of Haiti in the fires of revolution. Three narrators?a madam, a taxi driver, and a post office employee?describe in almost hallucinatory terms the escalating chaos of a bloody uprising that pits the partisans of the Prophet against the murderous might of the great dictator Deceased Forever-Immortal. ø The drama of promise and betrayal in Haitian life inform?s Street of Lost Footsteps with the grim irony and savage tenderness characteristic of writers for whom the repetitiveness of history has gone beyond tragedy, through farce, and on into insanity. With impressive originality and touching immediacy, Trouillot explores the nature of political oppression, memory, and truth.