Galana

Name: Galana
Brand: Stanford University Press
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Elephant, Game Domestication, and Cattle on a Kenya Ranch

Autor: Martin Anderson

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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An avid sportsman, Martin Anderson first visited Kenya on a hunting safari in 1960, three years befo...

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Autor

Martin Anderson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

128

EAN

9780804789240

ISBN

080478924X

Enbook ID

04719373

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

318

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 17

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An avid sportsman, Martin Anderson first visited Kenya on a hunting safari in 1960, three years before the country gained its independence from English colonial administration. Anxious to return and be a part of Kenya's new beginning and Jomo Kenyata's encouragement of "harambee" (working together with European settlers/farmers), he partnered with a Kenya settler and started to raise cattle. Four years later and with one more partner, he accepted the government's offer to develop a vast tract of raw African bush for a game and cattle ranch. This book is a history of that grand and remarkable journey. "Galana" recounts the story of the creation, achievements, and demise of the largest cattle ranch in Kenya and perhaps all of Africa. Located on an arid 2,500-square-mile tract--1 percent of all the land in Kenya--the Galana Ranch was founded in 1968. Galana introduced cattle into a region with virulent insect-borne disease, adapted the animals to the land, and bred resistant stock. It conducted scientific research into the domestication of wildlife, and aimed to manage Galana's vast natural population of elephants, lions, rhino, lesser kudu, eland, oryx, and other game to help that population attain a level the land could support. In the 1970s and 80s, however, an epidemic of poaching nearly wiped out Galana's vast elephant herds, and the ranch shut down in 1989. This engrossing memoir goes to the heart of Kenya's wildlife management issues and political challenges through a personal tale of adventure and enterprise in Africa.

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