The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa

Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown & Company, New York, 1993. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 200pp, 153 b&w and 13 color illustrations. "The Adventures and MisAdventures of Peter Beard in Africa" is Jon Bowermaster's copiously illustrated, semi-salacious 1993 biography of the noted photographer, adventurer, and liver of the high life.

Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March/April 2020) was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.

Inspired by earlier work such as Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen)'s Out of Africa, Beard traveled to Kenya upon graduation. Working at Tsavo National Park, he photographed and documented the demise of 35,000 elephants and other wildlife, later to become the subject of his first book, The End of the Game.[8] During this time, Beard acquired Hog Ranch, a property near the Ngong Hills adjacent to the coffee farm owned by Blixen, which would become his lifelong home-base in East Africa.