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Summary: Old Africa brought to life
Review: An excellent book for those that can handle the truth. It shows what will happen when nature is left to manage itself and what happens when men don't control themselves. It's about hard times and history-a way of life long forgotten. If you are a product of the spoonfed Disney age, then you'll find this book shocking. It may well be your first taste of truth about wild animals,wild places, and the true spirit of man. This book is about Old Africa and should not be judged with today's politically correct eye. It is an account of things happened in a forgotten time, and a lost way of life.
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Summary: An Example of Smug Racism
Review: Beard sees the European invasion of Africa nostalgically and in traditional British imperialist terms. What he has to say about Indian workers and native Africans is offensive in the extreme, conjuring up stereotypes of lazy blacks and treacherous, back-stabbing, vicious and yet strangely ignorant and child-like Indians. A book for reactionaries of every stripe. Minus five stars if there were such a rating category.
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Summary: An Example of Smug Racism
Review: Beard sees the European invasion of Africa nostalgically and in traditional British imperialist terms. What he has to say about Indian workers and native Africans is offensive in the extreme, conjuring up stereotypes of lazy blacks and treacherous, back-stabbing, vicious and yet strangely ignorant and child-like Indians. A book for reactionaries of every stripe. Minus five stars if there were such a rating category.
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Summary: A sad and compelling book
Review: Having been introduced to his work at a gallery exhibit in New York, I bought this book which contains pretty much the same sad pictures. Really an amazing point of view of wildlife in Africa, might shock some with graphic pictures of carcasses, particularly one of a zebra with its hide stripped off. What I cannot figure out ultimately is where Peter Beard stands on the issue - although the big message appears to me that he opposes the killings, which is why he films the hideousness of it all, he seems to have personally participated in the hunts that he photographs, killing the same animals. He is very elusive about his personal viewpoint, seems kind of snobbish to me.
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Summary: A hypnotic look into the fading shadows of the Dark Contnt.
Review: Hypnotic, sad, and occasionally graphic, this first-rate picto-history of Africa's glory days manages to convey something of the magic that inspired artists and hunters alike to flock to the expansive, untamed land known as The Dark Continent. Excellently annotated with stunning, eye-poppingly original photos never before seen. First rate. Spending an hour with Beard's book is to embark on an adventure. You will not be able to forget many of these photos, some of which were supplied to the author by Karen Blixen, the woman who penned "Out of Africa." The orginal 1965 edition of "End of the Game" is so prized the School of the Art Institute of Chicago keeps a copy under close guard in the Special Collections room. To spend an hour with this book is to lose yourself under the volcanic glare of an African sun, to feel the blackflies nipping at your shins, and see, if only through a final, panicked photo, all the beauty and horror of Africa rushing toward you through the tall grass of an abandoned savannah.
Sound exciting? Forget "Out of Africa"; "End of the Game" is out of this world.
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Summary: Pictures of Dead Animals
Review: I thought this book would be a collection of pictures of endangered animals, but no. These are pictures of DEAD animals. And in various stages of decay. I was too grossed-out to read the text.
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Summary: Pictures of Dead Animals
Review: I thought this book would be a collection of pictures of endangered animals, but no. These are pictures of DEAD animals. And in various stages of decay. I was too grossed-out to read the text.
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Summary: recommended
Review: I, like many of you, read these reviews before purchasing this book. I have little to add to these reviews-- for the most part they are accurate: the book is full of captivating photos and text. And like one reviewer stated, full of pictures of dead animals. One reviewer used the words "racist" and "reactionary" to describe this book. I use the idiom "chip on the shoulder" to describe his comments.
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Summary: Very moving for the non-ignorant
Review: If you are looking for a happy picture book, in which you can see your favorite animals roaming the great landscape in majestic awe, then this is not the book for you. Beard delivers to us a very moving plea for the endangered African wildlife. Yes, a number of the pictures are of dead animals, slaughtered for their tusks, hides or other prized body parts. The book is a morbid account of humankind's killing of these beautiful animals, not just their exploitation by the Africans or Indians. Although the photographs alone tell a powerful tale, the text should by no means be ignored. Beard included powerful quotes, and detailed accounts of the "end of the game." Excellent book, if you are looking for reality and are aware enough to know what to expect.
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Summary: Very moving for the non-ignorant
Review: If you are looking for a happy picture book, in which you can see your favorite animals roaming the great landscape in majestic awe, then this is not the book for you. Beard delivers to us a very moving plea for the endangered African wildlife. Yes, a number of the pictures are of dead animals, slaughtered for their tusks, hides or other prized body parts. The book is a morbid account of humankind's killing of these beautiful animals, not just their exploitation by the Africans or Indians. Although the photographs alone tell a powerful tale, the text should by no means be ignored. Beard included powerful quotes, and detailed accounts of the "end of the game." Excellent book, if you are looking for reality and are aware enough to know what to expect.
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