Volume 46, Number 3 · February 18, 1999
Trouble in Paradise
By John Terborgh
In the Dust of Kilimanjaro
by David Western
Island Press/Shearwater Books, 297 pp., $24.95
Thus does the conservationist David Western describe a morning at his research camp in Kenya's Amboseli National Park in his impassioned autobiographical account of a career dedi-cated to conserving East Africa's wildlife. Western is one of the world's leading conservationists. His story concerns the Amboseli Game Reserve, long the most popular spot on East Africa's tourist circuit. It is the place you have seen in those alluring posters showing countless zebra, wildebeest, and gazelles placidly grazing on an acacia-dotted savanna at the foot of looming Mount Kilimanjaro.
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