An indispensable historical document of Africa’s wildlife crisis, this landmark work reveals a continent depleted by human ideas of progress. Across two decades of Peter Beard’s images of elephants, rhinos, and hippos, it captures not only what was lost, but what these losses reflect in us. What once felt like warning now feels unavoidable. In a time of accelerating environmental collapse, this work asks not what we have lost, but who we are becoming.