Volume 20, Number 11 · June 28, 1973
On Safari
By Francine du Plessix Gray
The Long African Day
by Norman Myers
Macmillan, 404 pp., $25.00
Ten years after Kenya's independence, the main bar of Nairobi's venerable Norfolk Hotel is still called the Delamere Room, after Kenya's legendary settler, and is decorated with the mounted heads of His Lordship's trophies. An eager hunter thrice mauled by lions, Lord Delamere used to ride through the streets of Nairobi shooting out the lights of streetlamps with a pistol. He once bought a hotel for the sole purpose of staging window-smashing contests in it, using oranges as ammunition. What a good sport, his fellow settlers said, he bought the hotel first.
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