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[Papa] never bothered to explain the leopard in his great short story 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'. This was not only his masterpiece, but also his summing-up at mid-life and mid-career. He disliked explainers, so the leopard's frozen carcass was clear evidence as far as he was concerned. Harry, a writer, and Helen, his rich wife, had come to Africa to escape the easy life of their friends.
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Papa On a Boat
On board S/Y Bushido In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain and the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was c...
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