by Alan Ritchie | Jan 20, 2026
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. Then finally the day came, and as it so happened with the aid of a ten-year-old Samburu-Rendille maiden, that Bob got on the trail of what promised to be very big...
by Alan Ritchie | Feb 4, 2024
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. Up until the last year or so of Bob’s life, there was always a great urgency in his writing, an impatience in his attitude toward his work, and the desire to...
by Alan Ritchie | Oct 18, 2019
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. During the next few weeks we’ve changed locations many times with a series of fIy camps, sometimes setting up without anything except mosquito nets. The whole...
by Alan Ritchie | Sep 30, 2019
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. Meanwhile, our horse and camel safari continued, and there were plenty of unusual and even frightening incidents along the way. One day we were charged by a very...
by Alan Ritchie | Sep 4, 2019
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. I had a feeling that Hemingway’s death affected Bob more than he would have admitted at the time, and, during the remainder of the safari he was puzzling out...
