Sand Rivers (1981)
“All members of the expedition, African as well as European, made invaluable contributions that are identified within the text, and in addition, Hugo van Lawick made many helpful comments on the first draft of the manuscript.
Dr. Alan Rodgers of the University of Dar-es-Salaam provided a considerable amount of important information on the ecology of the Selous, and Drs. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, John S. Owen, George B. Schaller, Thomas Struhsaker, and David Western were all helpful on critical ...points.
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^ •'?• Sfilt-IF I Between two thoughts, in the month of August 1979,1 discovered myself with mild surprise on the evening flight from London south to Dar-es-Salaam, in Tanzania: how often 1 had made this journey which in an airplane, at night especially, seemed as mysterious as a rite of passage. Imperceptibly during that night, in the silver time capsule of the long flight between continents, crossing the moon shadows of the Old World, imagining the wine-dark sea, the silent pyramids, the vast desert like a last barrier to the unknown, there came the sense that always comes on the way out to Africa, that the past had been left behind, that one was returning into the present, that one might emerge from this winged chrysalis with a new eye.MoreLess
Dr. Alan Rodgers of the University of Dar-es-Salaam provided a considerable amount of important information on the ecology of the Selous, and Drs. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, John S. Owen, George B. Schaller, Thomas Struhsaker, and David Western were all helpful on critical ...points.
PM.
SAND RIVERS ^- .▼.
^ •'?• Sfilt-IF I Between two thoughts, in the month of August 1979,1 discovered myself with mild surprise on the evening flight from London south to Dar-es-Salaam, in Tanzania: how often 1 had made this journey which in an airplane, at night especially, seemed as mysterious as a rite of passage. Imperceptibly during that night, in the silver time capsule of the long flight between continents, crossing the moon shadows of the Old World, imagining the wine-dark sea, the silent pyramids, the vast desert like a last barrier to the unknown, there came the sense that always comes on the way out to Africa, that the past had been left behind, that one was returning into the present, that one might emerge from this winged chrysalis with a new eye.MoreLess
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