Someone of Value
A Biography of Robert Ruark
by Hugh Foster

Through ten major books (including Uhuru, Poor No More, The Old Man and the Boy, Horn of the Hunter) and thousands of newspaper columns, Bob Ruark was known to millions around the world. In his relatively short lifetime, Ruark grew from “the old man’s boy” to become a warrior, columnist, novelist, one of America’s best investigative reporters and a big game hunter. He said, “There are worse memorials to a great life than a book or a tusk.”
Between 1952 and 1958 Ruark traveled extensively through Africa. He came to know its problems and passions better than most. He was both angered and saddened by what he saw. And this belt-level journalist told his millions of readers that there would be no simple solutions when the winds of change swept through Africa and the world. Hugh Foster is well qualified to write this exciting biography. After two trips to East Africa, hundreds of hours of interviews with friends and associates of Ruark and detailed analysis of Ruark’s correspondence and published information make this an informative, insightful and exciting biography as well as a look at a man and a continent both fighting for existence.

316 pp, 43 photos, 7”x10”.

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