White hunter and Philip Percival and Frank M. "Bunny" Allen, whose safaris with Ernest Hemingway led the author to write "Green Hills of Africa", "True at First Light", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The exploits of white hunters were subjects first for novels and later for films. They were romanticized in adventure novels of the so-called "Lost World/Lost Race" genre. "BY THE IMPERIAL noonday, then, the spectacle of the Empire was flamboyant indeed, coloured as much by Oriental despotism and barbaric gesture as by feudal example from nearer home. If it was modernist in some
A. Kingsley Macomber Deauville Racecourse. Thoroughbreds owned by Macomber won major races in France and England. Notably, in 1923, his colt Parth won the prestigious Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse, and Gold Bridge won back-to-back runnings of the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1933 and 1934. Part of Parisian high society, according to his obituary in "Sports Illustrated", Macomber was hailed as the "undisputed head of American society in Europe." He served as president of the American Hospital of Paris from 1926 to 1928. Macomber was a lover of military history; his father had served with the Union