| Description |
1 online resource : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 34
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Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 34.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Securing Wilderness Landscapes in South Africa: Nick Steele, Private Wildlife Conservancies and Saving Rhinos; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Acronyms; Maps; Introduction; Focusing the Subject/Subjectivities and Setting the Interpretive Scene; An Iconic Species in Nature Conservation: The Rhinoceros in Africa; The Personal Archive of Nick Steele; The Aesthetics of Landscape in Nature Conservation; Methodological Considerations; Structure of the Book; 1: Picturing Landscape ... and What Comes with It; Game Rangers' Memoirs and Landscape; Landscape Construction. |
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'Camps' in the LandscapeA Metaphor of Aestheticized Landscapes: The Claude Mirror; Conservation Landscapes in South Africa; 2: The Rhino's Role in Wildlife Conservation; The Idea of Rhino; Nick Steele and Saving the Rhino; Networking with the Military to Save the Rhino; Nick Steele and the ANC-IFP struggle; Rhino Conservation as 'Bush War'; Rhino as Steele's 'Totem'?; 3: Longing for Zululand Landscapes: Nick Steele Transferred to Natal; Nick Steele Transferred from Zululand Reserves to Natal Midlands; Nick Steele on Issues of Race in South Africa. |
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Nick Steele's Disillusionment with Natal's LandscapesNick Steele's Friendship with Mongosuthu Buthelezi; 4: Private Wildlife Conservancies: Providing Security; The Farm Patrol Plan: Getting Things Started; The Growth of the Conservancy Movement; Game Guards: The Backbone of Conservancies; The Success of the Conservancy Concept: Crossing National Borders; Recent Trends in Private Wildlife Conservation in South Africa:Game Farming; 5: Summary and Conclusions; Appendix: Acknowledgements and Brief Methodological Reflections; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Nick Steele has been key to the large scale development of private wildlife conservation in South and southern Africa in the politically turbulent times of the 1970s and 1980s. This book contextualises this process based on the personal archives of this politically controversial conservationist. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Steele, Nick, 1933-1997.
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Steele, Nick, 1933-1997. |
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Game wardens -- South Africa -- Biography.
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Game wardens. |
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South Africa. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Rhinoceroses -- Conservation -- South Africa.
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Rhinoceroses. |
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Wildlife conservation -- South Africa.
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Wildlife conservation. |
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Game protection -- South Africa.
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Game protection. |
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Natural resources conservation areas -- South Africa.
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Natural resources conservation areas. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wels, Harry. Securing Wilderness Landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, Private Wildlife Conservancies and Saving Rhinos. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004290754 |
| ISBN |
9004290966 (electronic book) |
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9789004290969 (electronic book) |
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9789004290754 |
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9004290753 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004290969 |
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