The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise

Beard., Peter H.

ISBN 10: 0500275335 / ISBN 13: 9780500275337

Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1988

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Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1988-01-01. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp. GD++/VG+/ND. Box 24 SOFTBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988. * Publisher: Thames & Hudson.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing a bull elephant facing up to the photographer. Pale red titles to face and white titles to faded spine strip. Light shelf wear to edges & to head & tail of spine. Light marks. In clear adhesive film protective covering. GOOD ++* Contents condition: Ex school-library copy with the usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions to text, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Some very slight marks. VG+ * Illustrations: Copiously illustrated with b/w photos within text throughout including a few red highlights. * Pages: 260 pp. text. xiv pp. Epilogue, afterword, bibliography, acknowledgements and blank page at rear.* Description:- "The End of The Game" is the only wildlife book I know that tells the truth. Contained in these pages of photographs - many of them absolutely shocking ? taken over 20 years and which are incontavertible evidence that we must begin at once to reverse the complex origins of our apathy. Here we find "the elephants graveyard" and a mandate to try to re-arrange our own fate this side of the politics of sentimentality and anthropomorphism ? This book should come to the attention of the dedicated preservation groups, as it brings out into the open a "wildlife watergate" for which they are to a large extent responsible. Peter Beard settled in Kenya in 1961 on land adjoining Karen Blixen and there set about documenting the widespread destruction of the African Elephant. It is a disturbing book but not one that you will soon forget.* This is a NEAR VG++ ex school-library copy of the 1st/1st thus with minor age and some wear reducing it to GD++.* 0 274 pp. 1988-01-01.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500275335
• ISBN 13: 9780500275337
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: y 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.
• Condition: GD++/VG+/ND
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In 1961 Peter Beard settled in Kenya, on land adjoining the farm of Karen Blixen. Thus began a special relationship, not only with Blixen, but with the wildlife and people of the continent. In this book Beard documents the history and future prospects of African Wildlife.