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Peter Beard. The End of the Game (Hardcover)
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Peter Beard. The End of the Game (Hardcover)
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"The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life
flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vanishing in
acres of trophies and hides and carcasses." - Peter Beard A
landmark publication on Africa, The End of the Game combines Peter
Beard's salient text and remarkable photographs to document the
overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants,
rhinos, and hippos in Kenya's Tsavo lowlands and Uganda parklands
in the 1960s and '70s. Researched and compiled over two decades,
and updated several times since with new material, this is Beard's
essential book-a powerful and poignant testimony to the damage done
by human intervention in Africa. His own images and writings are
supplemented by historical photographs of, and quotations from, the
enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose
quest for adventure and "progress" were to change the face of a
continent: Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Courteney Selous, Karen
Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Philip Percival, J. A. Hunter, Ernest
Hemingway, and J. H. Patterson. This new edition includes an
interview with conservationist Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin, as well
as essays from previous editions by renowned writer Paul Theroux
and ecologist Dr. Richard M. Laws, and contributions to the
afterword by agronomist Dr. Norman Borlaug. Touching on such themes
as distance from nature, density and stress, and loss of common
sense, this seminal portrait is as resonant today, amid growing
environmental crises, as it was a half century ago.
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