Having spent the last 20 years in Africa photographing wildlife alongside the likes of Peter Beard, David Gulden has come to understand that his endeavor is more than one to create appealing artworks; he also wishes to create a document of the declining landscape of all the precious creatures that live there.

Gulden's 95 black-and-white photographs feature tranquility, bursts of action, portraiture, and the natural canvas of the animals and their environments. He visualizes for us the concept of global change so famously described by William Yeats in his poem, "The Second Coming," and from which the title of this work derives. Join this extraordinary photographer and environmentalist on a phenomenal personal yet universal safari where nature's creatures are captured with greater intimacy and artistry than one would have thought possible.