At the Hand of Man
Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
Published on 20. February 2013
320 pages
978-0-307-83059-3 (ISBN)
Description
Defying conventional wisdom even as it makes an impassioned plea for moral common sense, this book by an award-winning journalist sheds a new light on the history and politics of the African conservation movement. The book will anger and inspire anyone who cares about African wildlife and the people whose future is intertwined with the fate of these animals.
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Raymond Bonner
At the Hand of Man
Book
06/1995
Random House Value Publishing
€24.59
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Raymond Bonner
At the Hand of Man
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10/1994
Vintage Books
€31.04
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At the Hand of Man
Peril and Hope for Africa's Wil
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04/1993
Alfred A. Knopf
€42.08
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Raymond Bonner practiced law for a decade and taught at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. He later became an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, where he was a member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team in 1999, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has also written for The Economist and The New York Review of Books, and blogs at the Daily Beast and theatlantic.com. He is the author of Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy, which received the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism; At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife; and Anatomy of Injustice. He lives in London.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- One: Listening to Africa
- Two: The White Man's Game
- Ivory Lust
- Patricians
- What Do We Believe in, And What About the Baobab
- Africa Besieged
- Three: Whose Heritage is It?
- Four: Space For Large Species
- Five: Hunted and Hunters
- Six Hope
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
