SERENGETI SHALL NOT DIE BERNHARD AND MICHAEL GRZIMEK HAMISH HAMILTON: LONDON 1969 20 x 14 cm. 256 pp + b/w photo plates. HB/DJ A classic of African conservation. "The Serengeti Park supports the last great concentration of wild animals in the world. It covers roughly 6,000 square miles just inside the northern borders of Tanganyika... The animals use it as a migration route; as soon as the wet season ends they move eastwards from Lake Victoria in tens of thousands, breeding and pasturing as they go along, and then when the rains begin again they turn back towards the lake. To see these hordes in motion is one of the most arresting sights in Africa." But also living in the territory, with their cattle, sheep and goats, are some five thousand members of the most spectacular tribe in Africa, the Masai. Peaceful co-existence between big game and tribesmen became increasingly difficult and bitter controversy has arisen on the fundamental issue whether man has inviolable rights on earth or whether, at least within the Serengeti, wild life should not be given priority. This is the question which Dr. Bernhard Grzimek raises in his absorbing book. With its magnificent illustrations and fascinating accounts of tracing the migration of wild herds in the Serengeti, it is a unique contribution to our knowledge of big game in Africa. It is also a deeply moving human story, for Dr. Grzimek, who, as curator of the Frankfurt Zoo, had made earlier expeditions to Africa to bring back live specimens, was always accompanied by his brilliant young son, Michael. Together they learned to fly the little single-engined black and white striped aeroplane from which they studied migration. Michael Grzimek had a great career before him as explorer, naturalist and maker of documentary films. But just as he and his father were finishing their Serengeti survey, a vulture flew into the wing of his plane. It crashed and, at the age of 24, Michael was killed instantly. There could be no better memorial than his father's book. Nor could he himself have bequeathed to civilisation a more eloquent plea for the 367,000 wild animals who, if the Grzimeks' fears prove justified, may soon go without a home. CONTENTS Preface Introduction PREPARATIONS THE FLIGHT TO AFRICA IN THE NGORONGORO CRATER THE SERENGETI LIONS A EUROPEAN CASTLE IN AFRICA COUNTING THE ANIMALS ZEBRAS DYED YELLOW WE DISCOVER POACHERS CONCERNING POISONOUS SNAKES MIRACLE GUNS THE POACHERS' LAIR AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTERS THE MASAI—"GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE" A NIGHT IN THE NGORONGORO CRATER GREAT HERDS ON THE MOVESERENGETI SHALL NOT DIE Postscript

SERENGETI SHALL NOT DIE

BERNHARD AND MICHAEL GRZIMEK

HAMISH HAMILTON: LONDON
1969

A classic of African conservation.
"The Serengeti Park supports the last great concentration of wild animals in the world. It covers roughly 6,000 square miles just inside the northern borders of Tanganyika... The animals use it as a migration route; as soon as the wet season ends they move eastwards from Lake Victoria in tens of thousands, breeding and pasturing as they go along, and then when the rains begin again they turn back towards the lake. To see these hordes in motion is one of the most arresting sights in Africa."

But also living in the territory, with their cattle, sheep and goats, are some five thousand members of the most spectacular tribe in Africa, the Masai. Peaceful co-existence between big game and tribesmen became increasingly difficult and bitter controversy has arisen on the fundamental issue whether man has inviolable rights on earth or whether, at least within the Serengeti, wild life should not be given priority. This is the question which Dr. Bernhard Grzimek raises in his absorbing

book. With its magnificent illustrations and fascinating accounts of tracing the migration of wild herds in the Serengeti, it is a unique contribution to our knowledge of big game in Africa.

It is also a deeply moving human story, for Dr. Grzimek, who, as curator of the Frankfurt Zoo, had made earlier expeditions to Africa to bring back live specimens, was always accompanied by his brilliant young son, Michael. Together they learned to fly the little single-engined black and white striped aeroplane from which they studied migration. Michael Grzimek had a great career before him as explorer, naturalist and maker of documentary films.

But just as he and his father were finishing their Serengeti survey, a vulture flew into the wing of his plane. It crashed and, at the age of 24, Michael was killed instantly. There could be no better memorial than his father's book. Nor could he himself have bequeathed to civilisation a more eloquent plea for the 367,000 wild animals who, if the Grzimeks' fears prove justified, may soon go without a home.

CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
PREPARATIONS
THE FLIGHT TO AFRICA
IN THE NGORONGORO CRATER
THE SERENGETI LIONS
A EUROPEAN CASTLE IN AFRICA
COUNTING THE ANIMALS
ZEBRAS DYED YELLOW
WE DISCOVER POACHERS
CONCERNING POISONOUS SNAKES
MIRACLE GUNS
THE POACHERS' LAIR
AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTERS
THE MASAI—"GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE"
A NIGHT IN THE NGORONGORO CRATER
GREAT HERDS ON THE MOVESERENGETI SHALL NOT DIE

Postscript
20 x 14 cm. 256 pp + b/w photo plates. 

Very good + condition. Price clipped dust jacket has a small chip to the bottom front edge. Book itself very clean and tidy.  

 

 





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