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| Title | : | Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679426590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beard—eleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa.He writes of the East African hills he came to know so well over four decades, where time slows to infinity in a great bottomless, bottle green underwater world about Nairobi in the 1950s, still a quaint, eccentric pioneer town, full of characters of all stripes and tribes, where rhinoceros roamed the streets and local residents went to the movies in pajamas. He writes of the camp he built twelve miles outside of Nairobi so that he would never be off safari, a forty-acre patch of bush called Hog Ranch (abutting Karen Blixen’s plantation), named fo
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . From Publishers Weekly Beard's memoir, dedicated to his daughter, Zara, has the delicious suspense of a tale told to a child—one who knows the teller escaped to tell his story. There are moments of quiet beauty, as when "a family of giraffes float past our open tents like shimmering ghosts in the moonlight," and wild days with "the most eccentric local animal trapper in the history of this eccentric calling." Occasionally Beard meditates on life or remonstrates on the factors threatening it. Although Beard's adventures abound, at heart this is a
Brian Wallace (Co-author of It's Not Your Hair) said bruised and flawed; but poignant and accomplished. Unlike other reviewers of this work, I found the book to be an interesting and poignant offering from a man known mainly as an adventurer/photographer/artist - not a literary guru. I'd rather read the imperfect but insightful works of an iconoclast who offers his uncensored impressions of an exotic land than some polished, politically correct and literary highbrow piece. Whether you are into his insightful and colorful words, his stunning and captivating images, or neither one, one is easily awed at the accomplishment of bringing so m. "Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa" according to Safari Sweetheart. This book is a fantastic journey and inspires the adventuresome spirit. A beautiful sharing of a unique life.. end of the game or end of his game? young female reader Amusing at times but mostly clunky and graceless, Beard pushes readers to imbibe his contradictory opinions and attitudes and his style can be quite suffocating.
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