Peter beard’s landmark publication on africa’s wildlife crisis remains a seminal account of a continent transformed by the human quest for adventure and progress. With hundreds of historical photographs and writings, as well as beard’s own indelible images of elephant, rhino, and hippo populations, this new edition includes an interview with conservationist 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 bearda 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 co...
