The Last of the Maasai

by Amin, Mohamed; Willetts, Duncan; Eames, John D.; Huxley, Elspeth

• ISBN13: 9781874041320
• ISBN10: 1874041326
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text.

To nineteenth-century Europeans, they were the "noblest savages, " an elite corps of painted and feathered warriors, strangely aristocratic in their disdain of other people's civilization. For the Maasai, nothing has proved an inducement to change during the last 100 years: not peace for war; money for cattle; nor cities and settlement for the plains and open boundaries of their land covering much of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(16)
Elspeth Huxley
Origins	29	(22)
Wanderers	51	(26)
Initiation	77	(22)
Manhood	99	(66)
Womanhood	165	(10)
Dilemma	175	(8)
Epilogue	183