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Land of Giants

Hardcover English 224 pages 35.8 × 28 2800 g

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Published in 2019, Will Burrard-Lucas’s *Land of Giants* records the elephants of Kenya’s Tsavo Conservation Area, concentrating on the last surviving “big tuskers”—animals whose tusks reach unusually close to the ground. The book grew from a collaboration between the photographer, Tsavo Trust, and the Kenya Wildlife Service, joining photographic practice with a sustained conservation purpose rather than treating wildlife as scenery alone.

More than 150 images shape the volume. Its central achievement is one of access: the photographs seek an intimate view of Tsavo’s elephants while retaining a clear sense of their scale, age, and precarious place within a changing landscape. Burrard-Lucas’s use of remote technology, including the remote-control BeetleCam, enabled perspectives close to the animals without reducing the work to spectacle. The resulting portraits are attentive to presence and character, while the subject itself carries the weight of a vanishing ecological inheritance.

For collectors, the book is significant as a focused photographic record of a specific population and moment in conservation history. It is also an example of a contemporary wildlife monograph in which method, subject, and advocacy are closely connected. The substantial English-language hardcover, issued by Burrard-Lucas Books, presents this project across 224 pages and gives the images room to function both individually and as a sustained body of work. *Land of Giants* deserves attention not because it promises a decorative safari narrative, but because it makes the endangered “big tuskers” its precise and dignified subject, and because its collaborative origin is integral to how the photographs should be understood.

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