- Gebundene Ausgabe: 176 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf (23. November 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679426590
- ISBN-13: 978-0679426592
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: Ab 14 Jahren
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,6 x 1,9 x 24,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 48.740 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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An animal-loving New Yorker, Beard lost his heart to Africa as a boy. He acquired 40 acres adjacent to Karen Blixen's Kenyan coffee plantation, and soon devoted himself to photographing wildlife and assisting in conservation efforts. It's been a long time since Beard last produced a book, and this is a gem. Writing with both tough-guy nonchalance and contemplative lyricism, he recounts the true-life adventure tales he often told his daughter, Zara, when she was a young girl enamored of Thaka, an enormous warthog who became a favorite pet. Handsomely illustrated with Beard's photographs, these captivating and hair-raising escapades date back decades to the days when lions strolled through Nairobi, and Beard and his intrepid cohorts risked life and limb to capture mighty rhinos and gigantic Nile crocodiles. He has survived a near drowning, the charge of a lion, and, most traumatically, an elephant attack, brushes with death that have made life all the more precious to him. At once dashing and philosophical, Beard celebrates the astonishments of nature, and expresses hope that we'll figure out how to live in harmony with what little wildlife still graces the planet. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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“Beard’s memoir, dedicated to his daughter, Zara, has the delicious suspense of a tale told to a child — one who knows the teller escaped to tell his story . . . There are moments of quiet beauty . . . and wild days . . . Composed with a writer’s ear and a photographer’s eye, this is a book to share, something for both the young Zaras and sophisticated Peters.
–Publishers Weekly
“A gem. [Written] with both tough-guy nonchalance and contemplative lyricisim . . . Handsomely illustrated with Beard’s photographs . . . Captivating and hair-raising escapades . . . At once dashing and philosophical.
–Donna Seaman, Booklist
–Publishers Weekly
“A gem. [Written] with both tough-guy nonchalance and contemplative lyricisim . . . Handsomely illustrated with Beard’s photographs . . . Captivating and hair-raising escapades . . . At once dashing and philosophical.
–Donna Seaman, Booklist
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bruised and flawed; but poignant and accomplished
9. Juli 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Unlike other reviewers of this work, I found the book to be an interesting and poignant offering from a man known mainly as an adventurer/photographer/artist - not a literary guru. I'd rather read the imperfect but insightful works of an iconoclast who offers his uncensored impressions of an exotic land than some polished, politically correct and literary highbrow piece. Whether you are into his insightful and colorful words, his stunning and captivating images, or neither one, one is easily awed at the accomplishment of bringing so much attention to this land.
Peter Beard is one-of-a-kind, and this little controversial book is merely one among many of his works that manage to successfully step outside of the mainstream; and deftly merge artistic sensibility (and a unique vision for beauty) with raw, edgy curiosity about life.
Peter Beard is one-of-a-kind, and this little controversial book is merely one among many of his works that manage to successfully step outside of the mainstream; and deftly merge artistic sensibility (and a unique vision for beauty) with raw, edgy curiosity about life.
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Landscape: CLOSED
31. Dezember 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Renowned photographer Peter Beard's Zara's Tales (2004), a book of airy African anecdotes ostensibly written for Beard's young daughter, is clearly intended for "children of all ages," but its best audience will probably be found among adolescents with an interest in the exotic and a talent for discerning the wheat from the chafe.
Unattractively, the narrative is reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne at his worst in both style and tone, being by turns smug, sardonic, condescending, patronizing, and both mocking and self-parodying. The overall impression the text leaves is that there is very little actual content to Zara's Tales, and what little exists is buried under the author's labored and indulgent prose.
The book is also overloaded at every turn with whimsical baby talk that frequently approaches high camp: a half page of text about a young rhino offers readers expressions like "delicious yum-yums," "spoiled brats," "bouncy baby," "tooth-some sweets," and "bonbon handouts." Not even young children will find this phraseology less than cloying.
Such language is in doubly poor taste since the brief story concludes with the rhino biting off the finger of a "neophyte ranger," while Beard's friend and comrade, Ken Randall, who Beard refers to as "a lunatic," rolls on the ground, "shaking and gasping, tears of laughter streaming down his face." In fact, there's little point to the anecdote except that Randall finds the tragic accident hilarious, a message many parents and educators will probably find revolting.
A photo montage of dead and decaying elephant corpses, reprinted from Beard's The End of the Game (1965), while obliquely underscoring the plight of African wildlife, only further throws into question exactly what audience Zara's Tales is intended for.
The book is physically handsome, but suffers slightly from being over-decorated in Beard's crowded, sentimental style. The author's photographs of the African landscape, peoples, and wildlife are entrancing and dramatic in most cases, and thus deserve finer narrative support than the thin, disappointing text provides. By the last chapter, the book suggests nothing so much as a private family project that has somehow found its way into the public market; many adults mistakenly believe their personal family musings have a broader objective appeal, and Zara's Tales, like a cartridge of tedious holiday slides, is no exception.
Unattractively, the narrative is reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne at his worst in both style and tone, being by turns smug, sardonic, condescending, patronizing, and both mocking and self-parodying. The overall impression the text leaves is that there is very little actual content to Zara's Tales, and what little exists is buried under the author's labored and indulgent prose.
The book is also overloaded at every turn with whimsical baby talk that frequently approaches high camp: a half page of text about a young rhino offers readers expressions like "delicious yum-yums," "spoiled brats," "bouncy baby," "tooth-some sweets," and "bonbon handouts." Not even young children will find this phraseology less than cloying.
Such language is in doubly poor taste since the brief story concludes with the rhino biting off the finger of a "neophyte ranger," while Beard's friend and comrade, Ken Randall, who Beard refers to as "a lunatic," rolls on the ground, "shaking and gasping, tears of laughter streaming down his face." In fact, there's little point to the anecdote except that Randall finds the tragic accident hilarious, a message many parents and educators will probably find revolting.
A photo montage of dead and decaying elephant corpses, reprinted from Beard's The End of the Game (1965), while obliquely underscoring the plight of African wildlife, only further throws into question exactly what audience Zara's Tales is intended for.
The book is physically handsome, but suffers slightly from being over-decorated in Beard's crowded, sentimental style. The author's photographs of the African landscape, peoples, and wildlife are entrancing and dramatic in most cases, and thus deserve finer narrative support than the thin, disappointing text provides. By the last chapter, the book suggests nothing so much as a private family project that has somehow found its way into the public market; many adults mistakenly believe their personal family musings have a broader objective appeal, and Zara's Tales, like a cartridge of tedious holiday slides, is no exception.
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Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
30. März 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is a fantastic journey and inspires the adventuresome spirit. A beautiful sharing of a unique life.
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