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Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos
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Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos

Harry Wels

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Contents

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
Picturing landscape
and what comes with it
Game rangers' memoirs and landscape
Landscape construction
'Camps' in the landscape
A metaphor of aestheticized landscapes: the Claude mirror
Conservation landscapes in South Africa
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'?
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
Nick Steele's disillusionment with Natal's landscapes
Nick Steele's friendship with Mongosuthu Buthelezi
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
Summary and conclusions
Appendix : Acknowledgements and brief methodological reflections.

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Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos by Harry Wels. ISBN 9789004290754. Published by Brill in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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