Iain Ross KIDEPO First Edition Signed
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Iain Ross KIDEPO First Edition Signed
First edition first print hardback of KIDEPO: An African National Park on the Front Line by Iain Ross and privately published in 2017. Signed to a previous owner by Ross on the front endpaper.The book is in fine condition (green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with no wear to speak of. The unclipped dust jacket is in fine condition and also has no significant wear. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Kidepo Valley National park in Uganda is one of the smallest Parks in East Africa, covering some 500 square miles. Nevertheles, in its prime it boasted an impressive variety of animal and bird species as well as a broad biological diversity of great interest to visitors and academics alike.
The park is located near Karenga in Kaabong District, in the northeastern corner of Uganda. The Ketebo or Mening are the inhabitants farmers and hunters who lived in the area since 1800 before it was gazetted as a game reserve by the British colonial government in 1958; the purpose was both to protect the animals from hunting and to prevent further clearing of bush for tsetse fly-control.
The newly independent government of Uganda under Milton Obote converted the reserve into the Kidepo Valley National Park in 1962; the first chief warden of the park was Ian Ross, a Briton. In 1972, Paul Ssali, a Ugandan, replaced him, their handover and training was the subject of the 1974 American documentary film, "The Wild and the Brave."
Iain Ross took up his appointment as warden in charge of the Park at the beginning of 1966. Apart from managing its routine day-to-day activities, there was the by no means small matter of coping with the adverse effects on the park of a civil war in immediately neighbouring Sudan.
191 pages with numerous black & white and colour photographs.
ISBN: N/A
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