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The End of the Game

Door Peter H. Beard

Categorie	Jacht & Valkerij
Boeknummer	#422441-AD32
Titel	The End of the Game
Auteur	Beard, Peter H.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Cologne : Taschen
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	3836555476
ISBN13	9783836555470
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with numerous (double page) photographs in b/w, commemorative edition printed in 5000 numbered copies (this is number 788), slipcase with large mounted photographic plates, 4to.
Samenvatting	“The deeper the white man penetrated into Africa, the faster life flowed out of the savannahs and bushland… it disappeared into the immeasurable mass of hunting trophies, pelts, and carcasses.” —Peter Beard. The End of the Game is one of the most important books about Africa and the devastating impact that the arrival of Western civilization had on the continent and its wildlife. A collage of images and text, it culminates in the obscene mass extinction of tens of thousands of elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippos in the middle of the last century. Peter Beard worked on this documentary for two decades, and its initial publication in 1965 caused a worldwide sensation. Beard's images and text are complemented by historical photographs and documents from explorers,... (Lees verder) missionaries, and big-game hunters who sought to bring the "blessings of civilization" to Africa and forever disfigured the continent's face: Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Courteney Selous, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Philip Percival, J. A. Hunter, Ernest Hemingway, and J. H. Patterson. In this 50th-anniversary edition, limited to 5,000 copies, TASCHEN reissues The End of the Game—in high-quality duotone printing and with an updated foreword by travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. Beard's book, which addresses themes such as alienation from nature and human hubris, is as relevant today as it was half a century ago.
Pagina's	282
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 125,00

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