The Eden Hunter (31 page)

Thank you as well to Eavan Boland, John L’Heureux, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, Adam Johnson, Tom Kealey, Scott Hutchins, Josh Tyree, Molly Antopol, Stacy Swann, Abby Ulman, Mike McGriff, Sarah Frisch, Jim Gavin, Vanessa Hutchinson, Stephanie Soileau, Justin St. Germain, Mary Popek, Christina Ablaza, Phil Knight, Paul Douglass, Tim Cahill, Laura Mazer, Mikayla Butchart, Roxanna Aliaga, Julie Pinkerton, Tiffany Lee, April Wolfe, Sam Douglas, Judith Weber, Adia Wright and Julie Stevenson.

Also, for their hospitality, patience and guidance during my time in Africa, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Rosmarie Ruf, Marc Kupper, Jon and Cher Cadd, Lary Strietzel and Okapi
Wildlife Reserve rangers Michel Moyakeso and Ungoboma—as well as to my wonderful Mbuti hosts in the Ituri Forest, for being kind enough to share a small part of their amazing lives with me.

Finally, as always, my deepest thanks to my family and friends for their unwavering encouragement, and to my wife, Sylvia, for continuing to be the best thing that has ever happened to me.

SKIP HORACK IS the author of the story collection
The Southern Cross
. He is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. A native of Louisiana, and a graduate of Florida State University, he now lives in the Bay Area.

Copyright ©2010 by Skip Horack. All rights reserved under International and

Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Horack, Skip.

The Eden hunter : a novel / by Skip Horack. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-582-43850-4

1. Pygmies—Fiction. 2. Fugitive slaves—Fiction. 3. Wilderness areas—
Florida—Fiction. 4. Quests (Expeditions)—Fiction. I. Title.

 

PS3608.O72E34 2010
813’.6—dc22

 

2010017785

 

 

 

 

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