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Twentieth-century man : the wild life of Peter Beard Cover Image Book Book

Twentieth-century man : the wild life of Peter Beard / Christopher Wallace.

Wallace, Christopher (Author), (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063066410
  • ISBN: 0063066416
  • Physical Description: xiii, 272 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Summary, etc.:
"Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard embodied the extremes of his time: grand adventurer and sexually voracious partier, friend of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jackie Onassis to Andy Warhol to Karen Blixen. And Beard had a passion--probably more like an obsession--with the faults of the entire human experiment, with the ways in which our consumption of the world's resources have come to consume us all. Beard's outsize life and character--his death-defying documentation of both the endangered wildlife of Africa, and, closer to home, some of the world's most beautiful women for a range of fashion magazines--animate this lively but authoritative biography"-- Provided by publisher.

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Subject: Beard, Peter H. (Peter Hill), 1938-2020.
Photographers > United States > Biography.
Artists > United States > Biography.
Adventure and adventurers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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