PATEL, Harshad C.
Vanishing Herds.
New York: Stein and Day , 1973.
We're sorry, this item has sold.
+$450
First Edition Harshad C. Patel's Vanishing Herds
First edition of this photographic and conservationist account of the wildlife of East Africa. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs of the fauna of East Africa. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with bumping and soiling. Ownership sticker to the front free endpaper.
Vanishing Herds (1973) by Harshad C. Patel, an East African photographer whose decade-long photographic safari across the game parks and reserves of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the surrounding region produced one of the most comprehensive and visually compelling documentary records of East African wildlife published in the early 1970s. The book presents the results of Patel's ten-year photographic safari into East Africa, encompassing the great migratory herds of the Serengeti Plains, the wildlife of Amboseli, Tsavo, Lake Nakuru, the Ngorongoro Crater, and Murchison Falls, and recording with sustained visual beauty the elephants, lions, cheetahs, rhinoceroses, flamingos, wildebeest, zebra, and dozens of other species that defined the East African ecosystem at a moment when poaching, habitat loss, and human encroachment were already threatening their survival. Patel's central argument is both conservationist and elegiac: as the herds disappear, man is losing an irreplaceable beauty, a warning from the past that has only grown more relevant with the passage of time.
Vanishing Herds.
Out of Stock