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The result is always interesting because Mr. Carr has a rare ability to look at the world freshly.--Marston Bates, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sights to which he calls our attention . . . the mile-high mushroom swarms of kungu flies of Lake Nyasa, the buzzards' ready manipulation of whirlwinds . . . are merely the chords from which, with the toughness of science and the insight of art, he improvises a brilliant opera of speculations about the evolution of animal adaptive behavior.--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the timeless voice of a classic, Ulendo speaks to readers today with even more force and elegance than it did on its first publication in 1954. Written by Florida's preeminent nature writer, this memoir describes the African journey--the ulendo, as they say in Malawi--of Archie Carr, who spent several summers in Africa on official business to study animal-borne diseases and sea turtle habitats. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His secret aim, he wrote, was to see my dream of Africa unfold. Revealed here in images of pythons, fly spouts, and curious men, his dream became a passion to preserve the African wilderness. I had thought of Africa as inexhaustible, he wrote in the preface. Now, however, I am not able to get rid of the thought of its waning. 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