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THE LAST WORD FROM PARADISE
A PICTORIAL DOCUMENTATION OF THE ORIGINS, HISTORY & PROSPECTS OF THE BIG GAME IN AFRICA,
its Diverse Peoples, Mountains, Rivers, Railroads, Resources, Reserves & Innumerable Rareties, Featuring, With Full Perspective, A Twenty Year Illustrated Record of THE GREAT PACHYDERM ( Loxodonta Africana) AND MAN together with a Stirring Narrative of Early Life, Exploration, Discovery, Daring Missionary Feats & Hunting Episodes in Kenya Colony, Tanganyika, Uganda, Ethiopia and various territories even more remote.
Including a complete, Authentic Richly Detailed Report on Human Progress and all its Manifestations in the Hitherto Unspoiled Wilderness With Extra Ordinary Exploits of the Late Karen Denesen Von Blixen, Philip Percival, J.A. Hunter, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen and Ewart S. Grogan …
Enlivened with Accounts of Human Despair and Endurance, Adventure & Achievement Triumph and Defeat. Amongst
Previous owner’s signature on title page. 230pp followed by 58pp unpaginated sepia photos, Afterword and Bibliography. A monumental production and a very upsetting chronicle of Habitat Destruction, famine and death by starvation. Please expect extra postage.
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Authored by Peter Beard and published by Thames & Hudson of London in 2000. This Third Impression is in Fine condition, soft cover bound with a french fold, covered in plastic and without a dust jacket. The size of the book is 273x245x17mm. ISBN 0500275335.
