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Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker s "Ivory s Ghosts" tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the jewels of the elephant its great tusks. Ivory came to be prized in every culture of the worldfrom ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japanfor its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. Elephants tusks were transformed into sensuous...

In A Certain Curve of Horn, veteran journalist John Frederick Walker tells the story of one of the most revered and endangered of the regal beasts of Africa: the giant sable antelope of Angola, a majestic, coal-black quadruped with breathtaking curved horns over five feet long. It is an enthralling and tragic tale of exploration and adventure, politics and war, the brutal realities of life in Africa today and the bitter choices of conflicting conservation strategies.

A Certain Curve of Horn traces the sable's emergence as a highly sought-after natural history prize before the First World...

British explorers Robert OHara Burke and William John Wills set out in 1860 to explore the Australian outback -- they never returned, but their journals tell their story. One year later, a search party led by Frederick Walker left to find them. Though unsuccessful, they discovered what had happened to the intrepid explorers.