"The End Of The Game: The Last Word From Paradise" 1988 BEARD, Peter H. (SOLD)

BEARD, Peter H. 

Chronicle Books

1988

11" x 9 3/4"

Fine

This is the first and the best work of the iconic photographer & Adventurer Peter Hill Beard (1938-2020), originally published in US and UK in 1965 and reprinted in all sizes and formats ever since, The End of the Game captured the pulse of old Africa with its unlimited big game and its legendary trekkers and hunters like Theodore Roosevelt, Ewart S. Grogan who walked from the Cape to Cairo to win the heart of the girl he loved, Philip Percival, the dean of hunters who guided Hemingway on safari, and J.A. Hunter the greatest African hunter of the 20th Century and many more colorful characters who roamed Africa. This Revised Softcover first Chronicle edition also includes portions of JH Patterson s diaries dealing with his hunting the Man eaters of Tsavo. Profusely illustrated with Beard's famous photographs, printed on high quality stock.