First Safari, The
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This book tells how, for a quarter of a century, a South African researcher searched for Levaillant’s travel notebooks and the fate of his collection and tried to solve the puzzles and mysteries of Levaillant’s life and times. Glen’s search took him from the banks of the Orange River to the vaults of the Paris Museum, facing 30,000 dead birds alone in search of Levaillant’s legacy; from tracing Levaillant’s travels to the Bloubok exhibit in the hall of extinct animals in Paris’s Natural History Museum. Glenn’s experiences show that research means searching.
| Weight | 0.370000 |
|---|---|
| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781431427338 |
| ISBN10 | 1431427330 |
| Author | Ian Glenn |
| Binding | Hardback |
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| Date Published | 22nd February 2019 |
| Pages | 230 |
| Publisher | Jacana |
François Levaillant was the first and greatest South African birder, the first major figure of modern ornithology, the creator of the first safari, the first anthropologist of the Cape and the first investigative reporter criticising colonial brutality.
He predicted the rebellion of the frontier Boers and was the first to portray the dilemmas of coloured identity.
His work in creating beautifully illustrated bird books of his time inspired a map for King Louis XVI that has become the most valuable African map ever produced, and is collectable: see: Bonhams : Birds of paradise https://www.bonhams.com/magazine/25619/ Issue 54, Spring 2018 ... include exceptional zoological works by Daniel Giraud Elliot and François Levaillant –
This book is intended for would-be researchers, for people wondering why writers as various as Nicolas Chamfort, Karel Schoeman, JM Coetzee and Michel Leiris admired Levaillant, for teachers looking for a new start for South African literature and for people interested in the bush or birding who want to know why Levaillant was South Africa’s greatest naturalist.