A cool wind out of the south; we head downstream. A herd of impala, the emblematic antelope of Africa, springs away over the green savanna, and as we pass, the great milky-lidded eagle owl eases out of a thick kigelia and flops softly a short distance to another tree, pursued by the harsh racket of a roller. Already tending north-northwest toward its confluence with the Luwegu, the river unwinds around broad sand bars and rock bends, and wherever it winds away toward the east, the man called Goa cuts across the bends, following the river plains, the hills, the open woods, and descending once again to the westward river.
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chapter I
1. And the second largest in the world, after the Wood Buffalo Park in northern Alberta, which can claim scarcely twenty species of large mammals, as opposed to thirty-six in the Selous.
2. Formerly the Queen Elizabeth and the Murchison Falls National Parks.
3. See New York Times, 18 August 1979.
4. Conversation with Dr. Thomas Struhsaker, New York Zoological Society, 16 October 1979. See also Karl Van Orsdol, 'Slaughter of the Innocents', Animal Kingdom, Dec. - Jan. 1979.
Chapter II -*•
1. Conversation with W. A. Rodgers, August 1979.
2. Fielge Kjekhus, Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History, London: Heinemann, 1977.
3. Margaret Lane,Li/e with lonides, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963.
4. W. A. Rodgers, 'The Sleeping Wilderness', Africana.
5. Alan Wykes, Snake Man, London: Fiamish Hamilton, 1964.
Chapter III
1. Brian D. Nicholson, 'The African Elephant', African Wildlife, Vol. 8, Part IV, pp. 313-22 (1954).
2. Conversation with Dr. Thomas Struhsaker, 16 October 1979.
3. Conversation with Dr. David Western, October 1979.
Chapter IV 1. At the Mweka College of Wildlife Management, at Moshi.
Chapter VII 1. Nicholson, 'The African Elephant'.
Chapter IX
1. Wykes, Snake Man.
2. See R. M. Bell, 'The Maji-Maji Rebellion in Liwale District', Tanganyika Notes and Records, 1950.
3. K. Weule, 'Native Life in East Africa', London, 1909, quoted in Kjekshus, Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History.
4. J. P. Moffett, Handbook of Tanganyika, 1958.
Peter Matthiessen'S many works on natural history and the exploration of wild places include The Tree Where Man Was Bom (with Eliot Porter), The Cloud Forest, and the classic Wildlife in America. His most recent book, The Snow Leopard, received the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1978.
Hugo van Lawick is widely known for his photography, particularly of African wildlife. Among his previous books are So7o.' The Story of an African Wild Dog and Savage Paradise.
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