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The End of the Game, una publicación histórica sobre África, combina un texto sobresaliente y unas fotografías magníficas de Peter Beard para documentar la superpoblación y el hambre de decenas de miles de elefantes, rinocerontes e hipopotamos en las tierras bajas de Tsavo, en Kenia, y en los parques nacionales de Uganda en las decadas de 1960 y 1970. Beard dedico dos decadas a investigar y compilar material para esta obra, que actualizo posteriormente en varias ocasiones. El resultado es un libro esencial que ofrece un testimonio poderoso y conmovedor del daño causado por la intervencion humana en Africa. Sus imagenes y textos se complementan con fotografias historicas y citas de empresarios, exploradores, misioneros y cazadores de caza mayor cuya busqueda de aventuras y progreso iba a cambiar la faz de un continente: Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Courteney Selous, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Philip Percival, J. A. Hunter, Ernest Hemingway y J. H. Patterson. Esta nueva edicion incluye una entrevista con el conservacionista Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin, asi como ensayos procedentes de ediciones anteriores del reconocido escritor Paul Theroux, el ecologo Dr. Richard M. Laws y contribuciones al epilogo del agronomo Dr. Norman Borlaug. Con su modo de abordar el alejamiento de la naturaleza, la superpoblacion y el estres, asi como la perdida del sentido comun, este retrato fundamental esta tan vigente hoy, en medio de crecientes crisis ambientales, como lo estuvo hace medio siglo.

First published in 1994 The Traveling Tree by world renowned photographer Michio Hoshino is a literary classic In this enduringly popular collection naturalist mystic and adventurer Michio Hoshino reflects on the world around him Michio Hoshino s life was changed after coming across a book containing an aerial photograph of the tiny Inupuiak village Shishmaref in a used bookstore in Tokyo The teenager was immediately enchanted by this tiny cluster of dwellings on the Arctic Sea What sort of people lived in such a desolate place seemingly at the ends of the Earth The photograph intrigued him so much that he decided to write a letter asking if he could visit the village Not knowing to whom he should address the letter he made it out to simply Mayor Shishmaref To his surprise he received a response from an Inupiak family willing to host him and spent the next summer at the age of 19 immersed in their way of life After this introduction to Alaska Hoshino was smitten with America s northernmost state and dedicated the remainder of his life to photographing and writing about it The Traveling Tree is a collection of his writing published at the peak of his artistic prowess only two years before his career was tragically cut short at the age of 43 by