Currently, from my left brain book stack, I am waist deep in Oxford mathematician, John Lennox’s “God, AI, & the End of History.
And “on deck” from my right brain stack?
Perhaps Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite Africa writer, Abel Chapman, and his 1908 book “On Safari.” A childhood and lifelong friend of Selous, Chapman was a successful business man and adroit author and artist. Roosevelt wrote of him saying he combined, “the abilities of sportsman, naturalist, and writer.” I have to imagine this book influenced Roosevelt’s own famous 1909-1910 African safari. The copy I came upon some time ago is leather bound and holding it in hand and reading its opening words, “Those were glorious days - days spent in a primordial world.”, I’d swear I can smell the smolderings of last night’s mopane fire on the high bank of an African stream.
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