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Title: The end of the game: The last word from paradise : a pictorial documentation of the origins, history & prospects of the big game in Africa by Peter H Beard ISBN: 0-385-13124-0 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 1977 Format: Unknown Binding |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The end of the big game - A book to protect today'swildlife
Comment: Published in 1965, the book is the most famous book of Peter Beard. The book is shoking as most photos are pictures of dead animals, it is definitely not a book to look at before your safari. Black and white pictures are excellent. Sadly, the last pages are only photos of elephant's carcasses (too much?). The Beard's touch is a book full of old illustration, tiny pics, small and odd drawings and detailed texts - most of them taken from the British Museum. The book is about the Old Africa and text about Mt Kenya, the Man-eaters of Tsavo, Nairobi and Karen Blixen are not easy and you must have a knowledge of Kenyan history to understand them fully. This book is essential for any African collection as it has shocked and marked history.
Rating: 5
Summary: A sad and compelling book
Comment: Having been introduced to his work at a gallery exhibit in New York, I bought this book which contains pretty much the same sad pictures. Really an amazing point of view of wildlife in Africa, might shock some with graphic pictures of carcasses, particularly one of a zebra with its hide stripped off. What I cannot figure out ultimately is where Peter Beard stands on the issue - although the big message appears to me that he opposes the killings, which is why he films the hideousness of it all, he seems to have personally participated in the hunts that he photographs, killing the same animals. He is very elusive about his personal viewpoint, seems kind of snobbish to me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Old Africa brought to life
Comment: An excellent book for those that can handle the truth. It shows what will happen when nature is left to manage itself and what happens when men don't control themselves. It's about hard times and history-a way of life long forgotten. If you are a product of the spoonfed Disney age, then you'll find this book shocking. It may well be your first taste of truth about wild animals,wild places, and the true spirit of man. This book is about Old Africa and should not be judged with today's politically correct eye. It is an account of things happened in a forgotten time, and a lost way of life.
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Title: Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa by Peter Beard ISBN: 0811821056 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa by Jon Bowermaster ISBN: 0821219073 Publisher: Little Brown & Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men by A. D. Graham, Peter Beard, Alistair Graham, Peter H. Beard ISBN: 0877015392 Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits by Peter H. Beard, Anthony Haden Guest, Peter Beard ISBN: 1892041154 Publisher: Arena Editions Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Shadow of Kilimanjaro by Rick Ridgeway ISBN: 0805053905 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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