{"product_id":"peter-beard","title":"Peter Beard","description":"\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","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492494614901,"sku":"9783754402719","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783754402719.jpg?v=1786529379","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/peter-beard","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}