Peter Beard. The End of the Game

Peter Beard

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Taschen GmbH
29 July 2025

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Individual photographers; Special kinds of photography

""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, 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 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, this seminal portrait is as resonant today, amid growing environmental crises, as it was a half century ago.

By: Peter Beard
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 272mm, Width: 245mm,
Weight: 1.708kg
ISBN: 9783754402719
ISBN 10: 3754402714
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for Peter Beard. The End of the Game

“A unique book, in its scope and breadth, its boldly time-spanning and contrast-rich design, even its noble-Victorian sense of mission.” * The New York Times *