Peter Beard

A first edition copy of Peter Beard's The End of the Game.

• Peter Beard (American).
• New York: The Viking Press, 1965.
• 256 pages.
• Quarto.
• Includes black-and-white and color photographs, drawings and maps in offset and gravure, printed by C.J. Bucher Ltd.
• Bound in grey cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in gold on spine and upper side, with photo-illustrated dust jacket printed in orange and black.

The End of the Game is Peter Beard's first and most important book, a powerful account of the gradual and relentless destruction of East African wildlife. Widely regarded as a seminal work on conservation, it also serves as a moving tribute to the devastating impact of loss and the fragility of life. In his introduction, Beard writes: "A book about Africa is necessarily a book about many things, and this one hopes to be precisely that; a memory of the past, a record of the present, and an image of the future… Fifty years ago men had to be protected from the beasts; today the beasts must somehow be protected from man."