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is the phrase that often crops up. Tall and rangy, with tousled long hair, wrist cuffed in bracelets, and talisman beads in an antelope scrotum hanging from his neck, this is the mien of a man who knows how to annex attention. Born into a long line of explorers and adventurers, Ralph’s father Jack — holder of the dolorous record for the most crocodiles killed in Africa — started guiding photographic safaris in the’s Best Safari Guide in Africa in 2023. But he has a knack with furniture and fabrics too.

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