I.
About the author:
Alan
McCrae Moorehead (1910–83). Australian reporter, foreign
correspondent, and historian Alan Moorehead was highly
praised for his coverage of the African campaigns
in World War II. His accounts of that period were
published in his African Trilogy (1944). He was born
on July 22, 1910, in Melbourne, Australia. He attended
Scotch College and Melbourne University, where he
edited the Melbourne… Educated at Scotch College,
Melbourne and Melbourne University, he served as foreign
correspondent of the Daily Express from 1936 to 1939,
one of his first assignments being the Spanish Civil
War. During the Second World War he was war correspondent
in the Middle and Far East and in much of Europe,
and was awarded the OBE. His books include African
Trilogy (1944); Montgomery (1946); Gallipoli (1956),
which won the Sunday Times 1956 Book Prize and the
Duff Cooper Memorial Award; The Russian Revolution
(1958); No Room in the Ark (1959); The White Nile
(1960); The Blue Nile (1962); Cooper's Creek (1963),
which received the Royal Society of Literature Award;
The Fatal Impact (1966); Darwin and the Beagle (1969)
and A Late Education: Episodes in a Life (1970). He
was awarded the CBE in 1968. He was married to Lucy
Milner, a former women's page editor of the Daily
Express and they had two sons and a daughter. Alan
Moorehead died in 1983. Alan Moorehead has made many
journeys all over the continent of Africa. He warns
the world that unless something is done, many of the
great animals in Africa would soon become extinct.
The present text is taken from No Room in the Ark
he wrote in 1959.
