No Room In The Ark
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: junior ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
At a crossroads between wonder and extinction, No Room in the Ark presents a vivid and urgent portrait of Africa's vanishing wildlife at the dawn of the modern conservation era. Alan Moorehead — celebrated war correspondent turned literary adventurer — chronicles his journeys across the African continent, documenting the dramatic tension between an ancient natural world teeming with extraordinary creatures and the relentless pressures of human encroachment, colonial legacy, and rapid modernisation. With the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist, he details encounters with elephants, rhinoceroses, hippos, and a vast cast of African fauna, painting landscapes that feel both timeless and terrifyingly fragile. Moorehead's prose carries the authority of a man who has witnessed history unfold firsthand, and in No Room in the Ark he turns that formidable gift toward a subject that transcends politics and war — the survival of life itself. The work stands as a significant document in the literature of conservation, anticipating the environmental debates that would define the latter half of the twentieth century, while remaining deeply personal and compulsively readable. Part travelogue, part elegy, and part rallying cry, it leaves the reader with an unsettling question: how much of the wild world remains by the time you hold these pages?
Author: Alan Moorehead
Format: Hardback
Genre: African history
Edition: junior ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
At a crossroads between wonder and extinction, No Room in the Ark presents a vivid and urgent portrait of Africa's vanishing wildlife at the dawn of the modern conservation era. Alan Moorehead — celebrated war correspondent turned literary adventurer — chronicles his journeys across the African continent, documenting the dramatic tension between an ancient natural world teeming with extraordinary creatures and the relentless pressures of human encroachment, colonial legacy, and rapid modernisation. With the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist, he details encounters with elephants, rhinoceroses, hippos, and a vast cast of African fauna, painting landscapes that feel both timeless and terrifyingly fragile. Moorehead's prose carries the authority of a man who has witnessed history unfold firsthand, and in No Room in the Ark he turns that formidable gift toward a subject that transcends politics and war — the survival of life itself. The work stands as a significant document in the literature of conservation, anticipating the environmental debates that would define the latter half of the twentieth century, while remaining deeply personal and compulsively readable. Part travelogue, part elegy, and part rallying cry, it leaves the reader with an unsettling question: how much of the wild world remains by the time you hold these pages?