A life coagulated in thousands of pages, like a book of magic spells for eternity, a nostalgia of wild Africa at a time when it is irrevocably disappearing, an unwavering will to testify, to shape, to make each moment a small moment of creation, and to stigmatize the madness of his contemporaries, by making art of his personal obsession. Peter Beard seems to be both wise man and extravagant, an explosive, inevitably seductive combination of opposites that he does not try to channel. It is for this reason th