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Final chapter: Bruce Grover of Kohler donating rare books collection to UW

Bruce Grover?s interest in African exploration started when he was a little boy listening to his father?s stories about the wild, foreign land. ?He would tell stories, he had swords, he had hand-tooled scabbards, opium pipes, belts, sandals,? said Grover, 77, of Kohler, philanthropist and former CEO of VPI LLC. ?He would tell me all these stories.?