The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa
- Hardcover
- Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book; Little, Brown and Company, 1993
Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book; Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 199pp. Quarto [27 cm] Tan cloth over boards. Rear board just a hair warped. In the illustrated dust jacket. A large portion of the jacket is moisture stained, however the staining is primarily only noticeable on the reverse. The veneer of the front panel is rippled near the spine. From the dust jacket-
"As comfortable in the bush as he is in Manhattan's hottest nightclubs, Peter Beard is a throwback to an earlier, more adventurous age. Photographer, writer, diarist, anthropologist, historian, and socialite- he has led the kind of wild, rugged life fictionalized by Conrad and Hemingway. A man of extremes, excesses, and contradictions, Beard has made Kenya his home for more than thirty years. And in those years he has had one continuous obsession: chronicling the devastation of nature in East Africa.
"As comfortable in the bush as he is in Manhattan's hottest nightclubs, Peter Beard is a throwback to an earlier, more adventurous age. Photographer, writer, diarist, anthropologist, historian, and socialite- he has led the kind of wild, rugged life fictionalized by Conrad and Hemingway. A man of extremes, excesses, and contradictions, Beard has made Kenya his home for more than thirty years. And in those years he has had one continuous obsession: chronicling the devastation of nature in East Africa.