{"product_id":"peter-beard-the-end-of-the-game-hardcover","title":"Peter Beard. the End of the Game - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Beard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A landmark publication on Africa, \u003cem\u003eThe End of the Game\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Researched and compiled over two decades, and updated several times since with new material, \u003cstrong\u003ethis is Beard's essential book--a powerful and poignant testimony to the damage done by human intervention in Africa.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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: \u003cstrong\u003eTheodore Roosevelt\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFrederick Courteney Selous\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eKaren Blixen (Isak Dinesen)\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Percival\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJ. A. Hunter\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eJ. H. Patterson\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003cstrong\u003ethis seminal portrait is as resonant today, amid growing environmental crises, as it was a half century ago\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 11.2 x 10 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972775838003,"sku":"9783754402719","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OvomnxrWU9783754402719.webp?v=1794433897","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/peter-beard-the-end-of-the-game-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}