A fascinating portrait of Africa in the 50s - a seminal book of its era as the author visits the pygmys and get to close quarters to wild gorillas. A fascinating portrait of southern Africa in the 1950s, from an era when man and the animal kingdom held an uneasy truce. Moorehead's misgivings about this fragile ecology were sadly prophetic.

Alan Moorehead (July 22, 1910, Melbourne, Australia — 1983, London) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). No Room in the Ark followed these two circa 1963.