No Room in the Ark - Hardcover

Moorehead, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241904862 ISBN 13: 9780241904862

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1959

Synopsis

The hunting lion, the herds of elephants, the migrations of antelopes-these are some of the last great natural spectacles left in the world, and to travel through Africa, to gaze on a world of animals and birds and reptiles living as they have lived for thousands of years, is one of the few adventures left on earth today. Alan Moorehead, a great believer in the urgent importance of preserving the fast-dwindling numbers of wild game, writes with genuine love and feeling for these animals; the well-groomed baboon whose fur "looked as though it had been freshly cleaned and brushed"; the lily-trotter, the bird who walks with his splay claws on the surface of floating leaves; the gentle giraffe, "like a schoolgirl peeping out of a dormitory window"; he even finds charm in the warthog's appalling face. With his gift for selecting the detail which lights up the who picture, he brings you these animals going about their daily lives in their natural surroundings, either in the big Game Parks, or in the great uninhabited country of the bush. Mr. Moorehead is also intensely interested in the way of life of the African people he has met; the Maasi, the mighty hunters who live on blood and milk, the Karamojong warrios in northern Uganda, and the Turkhana tribe who live on the remote shores of Lake Rudolf, a primitive, polite people. Here the men wear nothing but feathers in their hair, while up in the West Nile district there are women who wear only two bunches of leaves. NO ROOM IN THE ARK was written after four journeys in Africa made during the past few years. Today when it is increasingly hard to escape from the city, from civilization, from other people, privacy and isolation are the most expensive luxuries on earth. But in Africa they can still be found. Reading this book you will understand what it is like "to want to watch and see and then to go on again, to cross the borders into Abysaina to find another river and another herd of elephants. You can never have enough.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Publication date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241904862
• ISBN 13: 9780241904862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 227