Grogan, Philip Percival, Ian Parker, Alistair Graham, Robin Hurt, Gordon Plant, Archibald Roosevelt, General Chui (an ex-Mau Mau) and other Tsavo Park wardens – who all added to Beard’s unique African experience and lead to his book, The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise. While in Africa, he met Bill Woodley, who later became the Warden at Tsavo East National Park Douglas Tatham Collins (known as Ponsumby) who showed Beard the Shag and Greater Shag during the Congo Revolution Mbuno, who would eventually become the mainstay at Hog Ranch, Kenya, from 1966 to 1992 professional hunters Bryan Coleman and Bryan Hurt who were practicing game control and others – Ewart S. The summer after his junior year, Beard returned to Africa on the Queen Mary with Willie du Pont and read Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) on the boat trip over he was captivated by the book.
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