THE END OF THE GAME. Text and photographs by Peter Hill Beard.

Beard (Peter Hill). (1938-2020).

Edité par Paul Hamlyn. London. 1965

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1965). (1963) 1965 1st UK edition. 4to (210 x 287mm). Pp256. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations throughout. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. D/w sticker; 50/-, 63/- after Dec 31, 1965. Lean to slightly shaken spine, stains to cloth and end-papers, tanning to edges. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. Beard's unique style and startling photographs and illustrations form an exciting and memorable record of the last days of the big game hunters. Includes "A twenty year illustrated record of the great pachyderm (Loxodonta africana) and man"; tales of Karen Dinesen von Blixen, Philip Percival, J A Hunter, Col Richard Meinertzhagen and Ewart S Grogan; "the never-before-published, hand written diaries of Colonel John Henry Patterson, single-minded pursuer of the man-eaters of Tsavo." Chapters include: Author's note; The Africa of Isak Dinesen; Introduction; Kilima Nirinyaga, the Holy Mountain; A snake from the coast; the shag and the greater shag; Game control; Foot safari; White hunters' banquet. An appendix gives a selection of letters from Kamande. .

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• Titre: THE END OF THE GAME. Text and photographs by Peter Hill Beard.
• Éditeur: Paul Hamlyn. London. 1965
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette