Ruark On Safari: Hemingway

Ruark On Safari: Hemingway

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...
Hemingway Book Bundle

Hemingway Book Bundle

For a limited time receive: Hemingway’s Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway and Bimini, and Sporting Classics’ 30th Anniversary Collector’s Issue for only $50! BUY NOW Hemingway’s Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway...
Remembering Legendary PH Harry Selby

Remembering Legendary PH Harry Selby

In June 1952, Robert Ruark and his wife, Virginia, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, to fulfill Rurak’s long-held dream of hunting big game in Africa. He’d nurtured the dream from as far back as he could remember, certainly, back to the days when his grandfather—the “Old...
Great Writers and Their Guns

Great Writers and Their Guns

If the thought that literary liberals once hungered for London doubles doesn’t fill you with doubt, then read on. Russian author Ivan Turgenev, whose efforts to free the serfs produced the Sportsman’s Sketches, bought a Joseph Lang gun. Ernest Hemingway acquired a...