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In a collection of personal anecdotes, essays, and reflections, the adventurer, photographer, and author of The End of the Game describes his life in Africa, his arrival in Nairobi, Kenya, in the 1950s, his forty-acre Hog Ranch encampment, its animal inhabitants, and his encounter with the legendary man-eating lions of Tsavo.
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“Beard’s memoir, dedicated to his daughter, Zara, has the delicious suspense of a tale told to a child — one who knows the teller escaped to tell his story . . . There are moments of quiet beauty . . . and wild days . . . Composed with a writer’s ear and a photographer’s eye, this is a book to share, something for both the young Zaras and sophisticated Peters.
–Publishers Weekly
“A gem. [Written] with both tough-guy nonchalance and contemplative lyricisim . . . Handsomely illustrated with Beard’s photographs . . . Captivating and hair-raising escapades . . . At once dashing and philosophical.
–Donna Seaman, Booklist
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“A gem. [Written] with both tough-guy nonchalance and contemplative lyricisim . . . Handsomely illustrated with Beard’s photographs . . . Captivating and hair-raising escapades . . . At once dashing and philosophical.
–Donna Seaman, Booklist
Peter Beard was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University. He is the author of The End of the Game, Eyelids of Morning, and Longing for Darkness. His photographs have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Paris Match, International Herald Tribune, The Times (London), Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Digest. Beard lives in Montauk, New York, and Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife, Najma, and his daughter, Zara.
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beardeleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa.He writes of the East African hills he came to know so well over four decades, where time slows to infinity in a great bottomless, bottle green underwater world . . . about Nairobi in the 1950s, still a quaint, eccentric pioneer town, full of characters of all stripes and tribes, where rhinoceros roamed the streets and local residents went to the movies in pajamas. He writes of the camp he built twelve miles outside of Nairobi so that he would never be off safari, a forty-acre patch of bush called Hog Ranch (abutting Karen Blixens plantation), named for the families of warthogs who wandered into camp, a camp populated with waterbuck, suni, dik-diks, leopard, giraffe, and occasionally lion and buffalo.In Big Pig at Hog Ranch, Beard tells the story of Thaka (translation from the Kikuyu: handsome stud), Hog Ranchs number-one, fearsome, 300-pound warthog, who came into camp and dropped to the ground happy for a vigorous tummy rub, and who one night, lying in his favorite position, munching on corn and barbeque chicken, was encroached upon by a bristly haired, wild-looking boar hog. All three hundred pounds of Thaka exploded straight at the hairy intruder, the two brutish, bony heads crashing together thundering through the camp and Peter witnessed the unleashed powerthe bullish strengthof the wild pig . . .In Roping Rhino, Beard tells of his first job in Africa, rounding up and relocating rhinos for the Kenya Game Department with his cohort and neighbor, a weather-beaten native of Old Kenya who thrived on danger and refused to batheand of the enormous silver-backed rhino bull that became their Moby Dick . . .He writes of his quest to photograph overpopulated and habitat-destroying elephants for Life magazine on the eve of Kenyas independence . . . of his close encounter with the legendary man-eating lions of Starvo (descendants of the famed beasts rumored to be immune to bullets, who in the late nineteenth century halted the construction of the Mombasa railroad, devouring railroad workers and snatching sleeping passengers from their Pullman berths in the dead of night to make a meal of them), who charged the author, coming in slow motion, like a bullet train erupting out of a tunnel, soundless, like an ancient force. He tells of his round-the-clock adventure tracking and studying crocodiles with a game wardenbiologist at Lake Rudolf, a tale that begins with one crewmember being grabbed from behind by a ten-foot crocodile and another doing battle with an almost prehistoric monster fisha 200-pound Great Nile perch! . . . and he writes of the final wildlife encounter that ended his safari days, an incident that proved Karen Blixens motto: Be bold, be bold . . . be not too bold.Zaras Tales confirms to our constant surprise and delight that nothing out of the ordinary happens. Its just Africa, after all. Offers a memoir of the author's life in Kenya on his forty-acre Hog Ranch encampment, describing his hunting experiences, and his encounters with its animal inhabitants, including the legendary man-eating lions of Tsavo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780679426592
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