The Ebony Ark: Black Africa’s Battle to Save Its Wild Life

xx, 186pp, 12pp black and white photographic plates. Cyan cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on black spine label. Bumped spine ends and top and bottom edges of front cover. Text block edges starting to fox. Free endpapers foxing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Shows how African conservationists are teaching traditional pastoralists, like the colourful Masai, how to settle down in villages and stop destroying the game habitats with their vast herds of cattle, and showing how the gamekeepers are nurturing rare species.