Two hundred colour photographs and an inspiring text aim to entice home decorators into transforming a city apartment or country house into a home reminiscent of African tree-house camps and lodges. Lodge addresses are provided for the intrepid traveller, along with source lists.

Simply Safari

Travel

Balfour, Sharna

Balfour, Daryl

Africa

Abbeville Press

A journey of discovery through Botswana, from the arid vastness of the Kalahari to the lush waterways of the Okavango Delta. A visual essay on the country, its people and wildlife, this book also looks at its history and future prospects.

This Is Botswana

Arts & Photography

Joyce, Peter

Balfour, Darly

Photography & Video

B H B Distribution

This is Botswana

New Holland Books

Etosha National Park is one of Africa's greatest game sanctuaries. Covering an area of 22,270 Square kilometres in the northern territory of Namibia, this semi-arid wilderness is renowned not only for its austere beauty but for the staggering diversity of bird and animal life which it supports. This is a wildlife preserve without peer, and a crucial sanctuary for many of Africa's rapidly diminishing bird and game species, including the endangered black rhino, the roan antelope and the rare black-faced impala. Central to the park is the 6,133-square kilometre pan, once a vast inland sea. In an area harshly governed by its seasons - desiccating heat followed by a wet season of lushness and abundance - vast numbers of animals depend upon the pan for their survival. It is here that huge herds of free-ranging elephants occur, while the surrounding plains teem with springbok, wildebeest, oryx and zebras, and their predators some of the most magnificent lions, cheetahs and leopards in Africa. The life and death dramas played out at Etosha present a wealth of photographic opportunities, and the husband and wife team of Daryl and Sharna Balfour has taken full advantage of these. In ETOSHA they deliver a powerful evocation of this surreal paradise, combing high-action photographs, close-up studies of seldom-seen creatures, and startling landscapes to portray the Park as never before. But ETHOSHA is more than simply a record of natural history: the supporting text deals with the colorful history of the Park, discusses the broader environmental issues confronting Etosha's conservators, and highlights the more interesting research and control programmes underway in the Park. Pertinent information is also provided for the prospective traveler to this fascinating area.

Etosha

Struik

Daryl and Sharna Balfour lived and worked in the Okavango Delta for two years, observing and recording Rhinos in their natural habitat. This is a photographic document recording the life of this creature in its natural habitat. Throughout Africa, where they occur, the white and black rhinoceroses are severely threatened: this is partly because of habitat pressures, but by far the most menacing threat to these animals is from poaching, for the rhino shares with the elephant the demand for a small but valuable part of its body, the horn. The introduction to the book dwells on the whole dilemma of the rhinoceros and what is being done by various governments in Africa. The rhino horn racket is discussed, as is the natural history of these creatures. Photography is used to show the rhino in its natural surroundings throughout Africa, their habits and social behaviour, and also the animals which associate with them. The Indian, Javan and Sumatran rhino are also discussed. An appendix summarizes each of the five rhino species, giving details of the scientific and common names, size, identification characteristics, habitat and habits, food preferences, reproduction, distribution and status. A map indicates the distribution of present-day and historic populations of rhino, and agencies dedicated to helping to save the rhino are listed with a further reading list.

Rhino

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Struik Publishers

This is a memento of the game-rich national park, containing photographs of the animal and bird life encountered there.

Etosha: A Visual Souvenir

Nature & Ecology

History

Pula Press

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