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South Africa is a land of hauntingly beautiful and diverse landscapes. Its wild places encompass rugged mountain ranges, sweeping sand beaches, indigenous coastal forest, and sun-blistered arid plains, with each environment supporting its own distinctive plant and animal life.
The beauty and diversity of South Africa's unspoiled and untamed places are celebrated in this latest addition to the Wild Places of the World series. South Africa's topography is characterized by a great interior plateau fringed on three sides by an irregular chain of mountains and hills that descend to a narrow coastal strip. The chapters focus on each ecological region in turn, from the Maputaland, a wetland area of great natural diversity, to the mountains of the Cape and Natal, the desert lands of the Karoo and the Kalahari, the coastal zone, the highveld grasslands, and the bushveld. The main focus is on wilderness areas and national parks, each chosen for its wild, unspoiled character, and the book emphasizes the need to preserve the country's natural heritage in a time of increasing demands for human development.
Wild South Africa contains 350 stunning full-color photographs that illustrate all aspects of Nature's cycles in each region. The book features the uniqueness of each region's fauna, flora, and geography, from tiny insects, birds, and larger mammals to fruits, flowers, and sweeping landscapes.
South Africa is a land of hauntingly beautiful and diverse landscapes. Its wild places encompass rugged mountain ranges, sweeping sand beaches, indigenous coastal forest, and sun-blistered arid plains, with each environment supporting its own distinctive plant and animal life.
The beauty and diversity of South Africa's unspoiled and untamed places are celebrated in this latest addition to the Wild Places of the World series. South Africa's topography is characterized by a great interior plateau fringed on three sides by an irregular chain of mountains and hills that descend to a narrow coastal strip. The chapters focus on each ecological region in turn, from the Maputaland, a wetland area of great natural diversity, to the mountains of the Cape and Natal, the desert lands of the Karoo and the Kalahari, the coastal zone, the highveld grasslands, and the bushveld. The main focus is on wilderness areas and national parks, each chosen for its wild, unspoiled character, and the book emphasizes the need to preserve the country's natural heritage in a time of increasing demands for human development.
Wild South Africa contains 350 stunning full-color photographs that illustrate all aspects of Nature's cycles in each region. The book features the uniqueness of each region's fauna, flora, and geography, from tiny insects, birds, and larger mammals to fruits, flowers, and sweeping landscapes.
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Like most lusciously photographed coffee-table tomes, Wild South Africa is a visual treat. Thonga girls look up from sorting fish to smile for the camera. A Zulu herdboy shows off his "amazingly tuneful" homemade guitar. The candelabra-like Quiver Tree is bathed in the glow of the late afternoon sun. In the big game category, elephants, rhinos, antelopes, giraffes, cheetas, hippos and hyenas freely roam these pages. Waves lap pristine shores. Rivers wind through forested riparian wonderlands. And in the category of the truly bizzare, a turkey-sized bird with a bright red face and throat pouch appears to have the longest eyelashes this side of Paris.
However, unlike similar volumes, Wild South Africa also presents the downside of all this transplendant beauty. We learn, for instance, that in the first seven months of 1824 alone, in a single frontier town, 22,700 kilograms of ivory changed hands, and that the destruction of habitat has wiped out many plant and animal species, as well as vast tracts of hardwood forests. This is a magical place on the edge, which makes the close-ups of napping crocodiles and breathtaking vistas all the more heartpounding.
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0262133474
- ISBN 13 9780262133470
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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