In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set him against internal corruption, poverty, and dangerous criminals. Sometimes at the risk of his own life, Leakey's love of Kenya, and his convictions about the direction his country--and all of sub-Sahara Africa--must take to survive, have been unshakeable. Wildlife Wars is the odyssey of an extraordinary man in an extraordinary land.

Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures

Biographies & Memoirs

Virginia Morell

Richard, Leakey

Leaders & Notable People

St.Martin's Press

Richard Leakey began his career following in the footsteps of his famous parents Mary and Louis, and becoming a renowned paleoanthropologist and head of Kenya's National Museums. In 1989, Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi put Leakey in charge of the Kenyan Wildlife Service. Ivory pachers were killing hundreds of elephants annually and the organization was close to collapse. Leakey sacked corrupt rangers and brough in millions of dollars from international donors to help enforce a ban on the ivory trade. But when Moi accused the service of corruption, Leakey quit, later forming an opposition party. He clashed with Moi but in July 1999 Moi appointed him head of Kenya's civil service and secretary to the Cabinet. He is now charged with ridding the government of corruption and jump-starting the economy. Leakey's clashes with poachers and the dictator Moi provide a dramatic focus for the book, in which he details the challenge he faced when he lost both his legs in a plane crash that many believe to have been caused by sabotage.

Wildlife Wars : My Battle to Save Kenya's Elephants

Pan/Macmillan

Origins

A study of human evolution by a distinguished paleontologist-anthropologist and a biochemist presents a view of an early human society marked by cooperation rather than aggression and illuminates stages in the development of man's body and brain

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Random House Value Publishing

Selections from a variety of nonfiction works discuss the history, people, culture, wildlife, landscape, and agriculture of Kenya

Nine Faces of Kenya: Portrait of a Nation

History

EVELYN WAUGH

Shiva Naipaul

Beryl Markham

Karen Blixen

Theodore, Roosevelt

Winston, Churchill

Ernest, Hemingway

Africa

Viking/Penquin

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

The world-famous paleoanthropologist describes his fossil hunting at Lake Turkana and reassesses human prehistory, incorporating ideas from philosophy, anthropology, molecular biology, and linguistics to explore how humans acquired the qualities of consciousness and humanity. Tour.

Paw Prints 2008-06-26

The Royal Geographical Society Illustrated: A Unique Record of Exploration and Photography

Arts & Photography

Edmund Hillary

Photography & Video

Scriptum Editions

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