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The Dallas Morning News Ray Sasser column: African adventure fulfills a lifelong dream.(Column)

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From: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Date: 20061019
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Byline: Ray Sasser

Oct. 19--SELOUS WILDLIFE REFUGE, Tanzania -- For 50 years, I've dreamed of Africa. It's the Dark Continent, the Cradle of Mankind. I grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' fanciful tales of an English lord raised by wild apes, then shifted gears to Hemingway, Robert Ruark and, eventually, Peter Capstick. I read every story that I saw about hunting the Big Five -- elephant, lion, rhino, leopard and buffalo. For the last 20 years, I've watched from the opposite side of the planet while politics and an exploding human population threatened the Garden of ...

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