Book
Twentieth-century man : the wild life of Peter Beard / Christopher Wallace.
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]
- Copyright: ©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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Beard, Peter H. (Peter Hill), 1938-2020. Photographers > United States > Biography. Artists > United States > Biography. Adventure and adventurers > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
