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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070827
Author:Steve Bloomfield

Stewart Edward White had walked for hundreds of miles, trekking south from Nairobi. An American hunter in 1913, exploring parts of Africa where no outsider had ever ventured. White had seen only "burnt out country".

"Then," he recorded in his diary, "I saw green trees of the river, walked two miles more and found myself in paradise."

White had discovered the Serengeti, a vast savannah, home to wildebeest and zebras, lions and buffalos. To the Masai who lived there it was known as the 'endless plain' or 'the place where the land moves on forever'. It is a land that has barely changed in more ...

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