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Author Name: Denis, Armand
Title: On Safari - the Story of My Life
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good +
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Publisher: London Companion Book Club 1964
Seller ID: 002653
318pp inc several b&w photos - Armand and his wife Michaela (author of Ride a Rhino, my stock number 002833) were wildlife photographers, he from Belgium and she from London. As a result of the BBC's 1957 TV series of the same name, came this book. He was as much the intellectual as he looked, a thinker and inventor. It was the royalties from his invention of the automatic volume control for radio that enabled him to undertake the journey that took him across nearly every frontier in the world in search of animals. He dies in 1971.
His motivation for the safaris which lead to the writing of this book was that "the animals I filmed were already precarious inhabitants of a world rapidly closing in on them." He added that the places he visited before WWII he refused to revisit because he knew "that the tribes and the animals I saw there once have vanished.I have watched thirty years of destruction. Another thirty years like those I have seen and almost everything I describe in this book will be a thing of the past.".
Standard CBC cover style in black cloth with gilt titles in a red oval to the spine. Textblock is immaculate, except for slight soiling of page edges.
Elephant, Giraffe, Rhino, Okapi, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Lion, Peru, Congo, Nepal, Travel, Safari, Animals, Photography, Autobiography
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