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 When photojournalist Elizabeth Gilbert first came into contact with the Maasai over ten years ago, their images were everywhere in Africa. Pictures of warriors were printed on postcards, T-shirts, safari advertisements, and hotel logos, but in reality their traditional life was disappearing. So Gilbert set out on a four-year journey to photograph what was left of traditional Maasailand. Broken Spears is the stunning result of that remarkable journey. Over 120 images capture the rituals, secret ceremonies, and landscapes of the Maasai, documenting the life of this extraordinary tribe in the most comprehensive collection of photographs ever assembled. Gilbert's intimate relationship with the Maasai allowed her to photograph centuries-old Maasai ceremonies, including male and female circumcisions, weddings, and perhaps the most dangerous of all Maasai rituals, a lion hunt. A moving photographic journey into the vanishing culture of the Maasai warriors of Kenya and Tanzania, Broken Spears is a haunting testament to a rapidly disappearing way of life. "Across Kenya and Tanzania, from Serengeti to Kilimanjaro and beyond, Elizabeth Gilbert has heroically and artistically photographed the last moments of tribal Africa with the Maasai, those herdsmen, lion hunters, warriors, and aristocrats of the bush. The pages of this book are already history in a compromised, ravaged, de-natured continent. Luckily, Elizabeth Gilbert has photographed what is left--everything that is authentic and valuable in Africa."
--Peter Beard, author of The End of the Game "A skilled, intimate, and remarkable portrayal of an enigmatic culture that goes well beyond the usual stereotypical treatment of the Maasai. Gilbert's work is a valuable contribution to the honorable photographic tradition of tribal studies."
--Peter Matthiessen  Hardcover 192 pages - 9" x 13" - (10/03)Regularly: $50.00 Now: $42.50 Save $7.50 (15%)
ZC8409 Broken Spears: A Maasai Journey $42.50
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