Someone of Value was published in 1992 by Trophy Room Books, out of Agoura, California.  Mr. Foster is an American, and, as of the book's publishing, lived in California.

In recent weeks I have seen several copies of Someone of Value listed on eBay.  That's the best place to start for finding any of Ruark's books.

Personally, I wasn't really impressed with Someone of Value.  A much better book on Ruark is Terry Wieland's A View From a Tall Hill:  Robert Ruark in Africa.  As you may know, Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru were originally slated to be a trilogy, with the final book being called A Long View From a Tall Hill.  Someone of Value is worth a one-time read, but I haven't taken it down from my shelf until today after having read it about ten years ago.

Are you also aware of Ruark's video documentary, entitled Africa Adventure?  This is a great resource if you want to see Ruark in action and hear him speak.  It took me many years to find a copy, and when I did, it was a 16mm print of it.  I finally passed the print on to someone else after I began to worry that it would degrade while being stored in a closet in my house... but if you can find a copy of it, get it.  It was released, briefly, on video tape under the title "Safari," before I reported that to the copyright owner as being a bootleg, which got it quickly pulled from circulation.  That video was taken from my copy of the 16mm print, and I wasn't going to stand for someone else making money off of it.  I wouldn't have sold it if I had known that was the buyer's plan.  Besides, the 16mm print was black and white, whereas the original movie was in color.

It took me ten years to complete my collection of Ruark books, which I am quite proud of.  It's almost a shame that you can do it now on eBay in a week. I'm still working on my project of obtaining each issue of Field & Stream that ran The Old Man and the Boy  I also still hold out hope that an Old Man movie will eventually be made.  Eva Monley, Ruark's companion, was shopping it around a few years back, or so I heard.  I also heard that a very good screenplay was done by someone at Chapel Hill.  Monley may have passed on by now; I'm not sure.