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Creators: Peter Beard
Publisher: TASCHEN
ISBN: 9783836584869
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304 pages
On Sale Date: 7/30/2020
Dimensions: 12.8 in H | 11.3 in W | 1.8 in T | 5.5 lb Wt
Peter Beards landmark book on Africas wildlife crisis remains a seminal account of a continent transformed by the human quest for adventure and progress. Featuring Beards unforgettable images of elephant, rhino, and hippo populations, this edition includes an interview with anti-ivory trade campaigner Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin.
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 Beards salient text and remarkable photographs to document the overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants, rhinos, and hippos in Kenyas 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 Beards essential booka 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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