Peter Beard. The End of the Game. 50th Anniversary Edition

Peter Beard, Paul Theroux, Paul Theroux

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Taschen GmbH
20 December 2015

Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Endangered species & extinction of species; Hunting or shooting animals & game

"""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 A 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, Beard's work is a powerful and poignant testimony to the damage done by human intervention in Africa. His own images and texts are supplemented by historical photographs of, and writings 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. Marking the 50th anniversary of its first publication, TASCHEN now republishes The End of the Game in a limited edition of 5,000 copies, with an updated foreword by internationally renowned travel and fiction writer Paul Theroux. 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."

By: Peter Beard, Paul Theroux
Contributions by: Paul Theroux
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: Anniversary edition
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 270mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 2.423kg
ISBN: 9783836555470
ISBN 10: 3836555476
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 20 December 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Beard (1938–2020) 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 ’70s he worked in Tsavo Park, the Aberdares, and Lake Turkana in Kenya’s northern frontier. A constant creator, Beard the chronicler photographed, wrote, drew, collaged, and assembled a history of his life experiences and our own. Paul Theroux went to Africa as a teacher in 1963. He ran a school in Malawi, and then taught at Makerere University in Uganda, where he also worked as a journalist, traveling throughout East and Central Africa. He published three novels with African settings – Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play, and Jungle Lovers, as well as short stories. He is the author of many other novels and travel books, including Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (2002).

Reviews for Peter Beard. The End of the Game. 50th Anniversary Edition

...a grand meditation on the balance between life and death set in Kenya... the most provocative and impressive statement on man's relationship to the natural world... ...un classico della letteratura sull'Africa.