I am planning to delve into this next week:
Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti by Thomas M. Lekan
Blurb...
"How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?
In this book, Thomas M. Lekan illuminates the controversial origins of this national park by examining how Europe's greatest wildlife conservationist, Bernhard Grzimek, popularized it as a global destination.
In the 1950s, Grimzek and his son Michael began a quest to save the Serengeti from modernization by remaking an imperial game reserve into a gigantic zoo for the earth's last great mammals. Grzimek, well-known to German audiences through his long-running television program, A Place for Animals, used the film Seregenti Shall Not Die to convince ordinary Europeans that they could save nature. Yet their message sidestepped the uncomfortable legacies of German colonial exploitation in the region that had endangered animals and excluded local people.
After independence, Grzimek raised funds, brokered diplomatic favors, and convinced German tourists to book travel packages-all to persuade Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere that wildlife would fuel the young nation's economic development. Grzimek helped Tanzania to create almost a dozen new national parks by 1975, but wooing tourists conflicted with rights of the Maasai and other African communities to inhabit the landscape on their own terms."
@ponderable saidI read the first book in his Century trilogy but lost interest. His best novel is, in my opinion, Eye of the Needle.
Have read
Ken Follett: Never
The weakest book by him that I ahve read. The stoy in Tchad is a bit interesting as is the story in China.
@torunn said"The key to Rebecca" was the first book by him I read and found quite well.
I read the first book in his Century trilogy but lost interest. His best novel is, in my opinion, Eye of the Needle.
I also liked "the third twin".
The kingsbridge books were okay, I think I read the first two, my interest was not enough for the any more.
