Word: serengeti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Savage Paradise by Hugo van Lawick (Morrow; 272 pages; $29.95) is a predator's portrait gallery, set on the golden plains of Tanzania's Serengeti. Having spent some 16 years observing and photographing wild animals in Africa, Van Lawick has a scientist's understanding of beastly behavior and a raconteur's way with anecdotes. But his long suit is photography: studies of sociable lions coping with the problems of love life and day care, graceful leopards stalking their prey, packs of hyenas engaging in gang warfare, and endearing cheetah families at play-all unique glimpses...
...America and Africa. The Caribbean was the stage for his 1975 poetic narrative of turtle fishermen, Far Tortuga. His latest work, The Snow Leopard, springs from a 250-mile hike that he and Field Biologist George Schaller made five years ago in the Himalayas. Schaller (The Mountain Gorilla, The Serengeti Lion) pushed tirelessly through icy passes and over the Tibetan plateau to observe the rutting habits of the bharal, a wild goatlike animal better known as the blue sheep. He also hoped for a glimpse of the snow leopard, a creature so rare that sightings may soon become as problematic...
CENTRAL FLORIDA. Disney World at Orlando is, of course, the magnet. An hour's drive away, at Tampa, is Busch Gardens' Dark Continent, which features not only exotic African beasts on a Serengeti-esque plain but also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers. Tampa, with good beaches and reasonable prices, is a fine base for a vacation that might also include visits to Orlando's attractive Sea World, Circus World and a waxworks museum, the Stars Hall of Fame, featuring Hollywood greats...
After then travelling through India, Nepal, and the veldts of East Africa (where Land Rover safaris past Kilimanjaro and across the Serengeti plain were the major method of instruction), the year concluded at Jaeger's villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Sperlonga, Italy. Only a few of the students--one a woman who remained in a Sherpa village near Mt. Everest--failed to join the rest for the final week of the school. The week was given over to thesis writing (or dancing, or narrating) for those concerned about academic credit when they returned to their respective colleges...
Merely to argue for the preservation of park land is not enough. Says Hugh Lamprey, director of the Serengeti Research Institute: "It may be unrealistic to ask the various African governments concerned to keep the parks for the amenity of the rest of the world. They might begin to think that the Serengeti could be better used in other ways. We hope to provide the scientific knowledge with which to conserve...