Reader, John
READER, John
READER, John. British, b. 1937. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Environmental sciences/Ecology. Career: Freelance photojournalist and author. Contracted with Time Inc., to cover Africa south of the Sahara for Life and Time, 1969-73. Honorary research fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of London. Publications: NONFICTION: (with H. Croze) Pyramids of Life: Illuminations of Nature's Fearful Symmetry, 1978, rev. ed., 2000; Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man, 1981, rev. ed., 1987; Kilimanjaro, 1982; The Rise of Life: The First 3.5 Billion Years, 1986; Man on Earth, 1989; Mount Kenya, 1989; Africa: A Biography of the Continent, 1998; Africa (companion to PBS TV series), 2001. Contributor to periodicals.
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