Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

Author:   Christopher Wallace ,  C W
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780063066410


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 August 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Christopher Wallace ,  C W
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   ECCO Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780063066410


ISBN 10:   0063066416
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""The author succeeds in looking beyond Beard's surface appeal as the 'ideal avatar for our adventurous impulses, shirtless on a perpetual safari,' to explore what he calls Beard's fatalism, his ""heartbreak over the destruction of the natural world...A vivid account of a life devoted to the African wild.” — Kirkus Reviews"


"""The author succeeds in looking beyond Beard's surface appeal as the 'ideal avatar for our adventurous impulses, shirtless on a perpetual safari,' to explore what he calls Beard's fatalism, his 'heartbreak over the destruction of the natural world'...A vivid account of a life devoted to the African wild."" — Kirkus Reviews"


The author succeeds in looking beyond Beard's surface appeal as the 'ideal avatar for our adventurous impulses, shirtless on a perpetual safari,' to explore what he calls Beard's fatalism, his heartbreak over the destruction of the natural world...A vivid account of a life devoted to the African wild. - Kirkus Reviews


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Chris Wallace is the author of the highly-acclaimed debut novel The Pied Piper’s Poison, also published by Flamingo. He lives in Edinburgh.

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