No Room in the Ark by Alan Moorehead (RB173)

Published 1959: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue and tan cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket in protective wraps. 227 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. (RB173)

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A fascinating portrait of Africa in the 50s - a seminal book of its era as the author visits the pygmys and get to close quarters to wild gorillas. From an era when man and the animal kingdom held an uneasy truce. Moorehead's misgivings about this fragile ecology were sadly prophetic.

Alan Moorehead was lionised as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award winning books; star travel writer of The New Yorker; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. At the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, 17 years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past. His fame as a writer gave him the friendship of Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Field Marshall Montgomery and the courtship and marriage of his beautiful wife Lucy Milner.

After 1945, he turned to writing books, including Eclipse, Gallipoli (for which he won the Duff Cooper Prize), The White Nile, The Blue Nile, and finally, A Late Education. He was awarded an OBE in 1946, and died in 1983.

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