Peter Beard\u2019s landmark publication on Africa\u2019s wildlife crisis remains a seminal account of a continent transformed by the human quest for adventure and \u201cprogress.\u201d With hundreds of historical photographs and writings, as well as Beard\u2019s own indelible images of elephant, rhino, and hippo populations, this new edition includes an interview with conservationist Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d \u2014 Peter Beard<\/p>\n
A landmark publication on Africa, The End of the Game combines Peter Beard\u2019s salient text and remarkable photographs to document the overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants, rhinos, and hippos in Kenya\u2019s Tsavo lowlands and Uganda parklands in the 1960s and \u201970s.<\/p>\n
Researched and compiled over two decades, and updated several times since with new material, this is Beard\u2019s essential book\u2014a 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 \u201cprogress\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The editor and author<\/p>\n
Peter Beard (1938\u20132020) began taking photographs and keeping diaries from early childhood. By the time he graduated from Yale University, he had developed a keen interest in Africa. Throughout the 1960s and \u201970s he worked in Tsavo Park, the Aberdares, and Lake Turkana in Kenya\u2019s northern frontier. A constant creator, Beard the chronicler photographed, wrote, drew, collaged, and assembled a history of his life experiences and our own.<\/p>\n
Hardcover, quarter-bound, in slipcase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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