GOD'S COUNTRY: Volume I - Plunderers of Eden

Volume I of God's Country, Plunderers of Eden, is a conservation history-cum-memoir of Zambia and briefly, of other parts of Africa. I have always been motivated by a sense of adventure and a spiritual need for places wild and free and filled with big game. Latterly, I became more focused on the indigenous people who live with wildlife: on Bantu villagers, fishermen and hunters, on the Bushmen and Pygmy, on the Maasai. The book is centred on my attempt to implement my Landsafe framework for the customary and public commons the chiefdoms and protected areas of Zambia - in the years 2002-2010.

Much of my time was shared with my wife Cathlin; who has been with me on the conservation track since we met in 1967, and then in 1972 as wife, best friend and partner. Since then we made 22 international moves, survived medical emergencies, civil war mortar fire, anti-poaching and rural protection campaigns, boat wreck, imprisonment, armed deportation, theft and treachery. But we had years that glow with the splendour of life together amidst Nature's glory.

"The book is unique and makes a massive contribution to the history of Zambia. No one else has ever had the courage to recount first hand what went on during the period."

Peter de Vere Moss - former District Officer in the British Colonial Service, Northern Rhodesia; and then game ranger - and later, biologist, in the National Parks and Wildlife Service Zambia.

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