Richard Leakey’s Wildlife Wars (Pan, £7.99) is an African memoir of a different ilk. “My fight to save Africa’s natural treasures”, written with Virginia Morell, is self-aggrandising and certain. While running Kenya’s national parks, Leakey sent helicopter gunships to shoot down elephant poachers. Even conservationists disapproved. But Leakey has no regrets or second thoughts.
Fighting talk
By Fred Pearce
7 September 2002
