Ruark Remembered - By the Man Who Knew Him Best

This is the leather bound Deluxe Edition. It includes a photo of Harry Selby with Robert Ruark that is autographed by Selby, The Great White Hunter. A new biography by Robert Ruark's male secretary, Alan Ritchie, promises to be a definitive book on Ruark, the man. Previous biographies have concentrated on Ruark, the hunter. All of Ruark readers who cherish his stories about, "The Old Man and the Boy" will identify with the Robert Ruark in this book. Alan Ritchie, an Englishman who assisted with the typing as well as suggestions to Ruark for 12 years wrote a personal interpretation of the life of the writer and his opinion of him as a person. Clearly consumed with grief when Ruark died in 1965, penned this manuscript finishing it in 1967. The manuscript laid lost over the years until it was rediscovered in 2006 in Palamos, Spain and subsequently publishe by Sporting Classics. Although the biography covers all the legendary author's life, if focuses on his life from 1953 to 1965 at the height of his career. The forward of the book is written by the Great White Hunter, Harry Selby who writes the good, the bad and the ugly about his long and respectful relationship with Ruark. Always a man not to mince words, Selby tells about he safaris as they really were with the writer. Often called the Poor Man's Hemingway, the book infers the real realation ship between the two writers. This edition is complete with photographs never before seen in print. The book is sure to be a best seller . It sums up the life and times of a man who has not been fully acknowledged in the annals of Souther Writers.