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Artikelzustand
Sehr gut: Buch, das nicht neu aussieht und gelesen wurde, sich aber in einem hervorragenden Zustand ...
Type
Memoirs
Special Attributes
1st Edition
Region
Africa
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780679426592
Book Title
Zara's Tales : Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
Item Length
9.5in
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year
2004
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Peter Beard
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel, History, Social Science
Topic
Africa / General, Personal Memoirs, Animals / General, Regional, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Customs & Traditions, Africa / East
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Number of Pages
176 Pages

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From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beard--eleven 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 Blixen's 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 Ranch's 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 power--the bullish strength--of 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 bathe--and 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 Kenya's 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 warden-biologist 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 fish--a 200-pound Great Nile perch . . . and he writes of the final wildlife encounter that ended his safari days, an incident that proved Karen Blixen's motto: "Be bold, be bold . . . be not too bold." Zara's Tales confirms to our constant surprise and delight that "nothing out of the ordinary happens. It's just Africa, after all."

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679426590
ISBN-13
9780679426592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30223996

Product Key Features

Book Title
Zara's Tales : Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
Author
Peter Beard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Africa / General, Personal Memoirs, Animals / General, Regional, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Customs & Traditions, Africa / East
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Dt426.B43 2004
Reviews
"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
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-066118
Dewey Decimal
967.604/092
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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