1955 "Something Of Value" by Robert Ruark HC Book

1955 (1st Edition) “Something Of Value” by Robert Ruark Hardcover with Dust Jacket Book. The drawings is by Daniel Schwartz & publishing company is Doubleday & Company, United States. The book is in MINT condition with NO tears, stains, or markings on any of the pages!! The spine is tight & holds the pages good together. The dust jacket has a small tear on top part. This book appears to never have been used.

Robert Ruark, a journalist and writer of some success came to Kenya in 1949 to go on hunting safari. While there he became a close friend of the famed white hunter Harry Selby who owned a 40,000 acre cattle ranch in the White Highlands near Mt Kenya. During the next six years he went back several times and was a firsthand witness to the beginning of the Mau Mau rebellion and State of Emergency which began in 1952 up until the eventual suppression of the rebellion in 1956. The violence of the rebellion and the impact it had on the small white Kenyan settler community.