Join The Explorers Club to celebrate the life and work of renowned naturalist and artist Peter Beard, as well as the launch of a new edition of his landmark photography book The End of the Game.
Under the leadership of Zara Beard, newly appointed Director of the Peter Beard Estate, The End of the Game is being relaunched in a renewed engagement with one of Beard’s most urgent and enduring works. The first reissue since his passing, this edition marks an important moment for the Estate. Originally published in 1965, Peter’s first book, it became the philosophical foundation of his lifelong work bearing witness to ecological collapse and vanishing wilderness.
Featuring:
- Jon Bowermaster
- Vincent Fremont
- William James
- Russell Mittermeier
- Robert Storr
- Rajiv Joshi (moderating)
About The End of the Game: An indispensable historical document of Africa’s wildlife crisis, this landmark work reveals a continent depleted by human ideas of progress. Across two decades of Peter Beard’s images of elephants, rhinos, and hippos, it captures not only what was lost, but what these losses reflect in us. What once felt like warning now feels unavoidable. In a time of accelerating environmental collapse, this work asks not what we have lost, but who we are becoming.
This in-person event at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A and a book signing.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
