Wild Edens: Africa's Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife: Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment (Hardcover), cartea 27
Autor Joseph James Shomonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 1998
In "Wild ""Edens"" Africa's ""Premier""""Game""""Parks"" and Their""""Wildlife," longtime conservationist and seasoned African travelerJoseph James Shomon journeys through the wild African scene, revealing its magnificence and mystique, and wonderfully describes the game parks' location, ecology, and irreplaceable wildlife.
From the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, the author surveys the marvelous Edens of East Africa, among the last Pleistocene-like concentrations of animals left in the world today. Descending, Shomon gives a firsthand account of the great sanctuaries, providing a knowledgeable escort on safari in the scrublands of Tsavo, where elephants are imperiled. He continues on to the Ark at Aberdares, where visitors can watch, under floodlights of a watchtower, rain forest animals come to feed; to the rain forests of Mount Kenya; and to the Serengeti and Mara Plains, with their great migrating herds besieged by predators and thwarted in their journeys by swollen rivers and flooded lakes.
The journey continues through the Great Rift Valley and Olduvai Gorge to Lake Manyara with its tree-climbing lions; Ngorongoro Crater; Samburu and Meru, where the rhino is threatened; the waterways of Uganda; the Mountains of the Moon; the Kalahari Desert; and the wildlife sanctuaries of South Africa, ending the tour at the Cape of Good Hope.
Shomon argues that the plethora of impersonal technology and excessive mechanization, as well as the world's focus on violence, social ills, and discord on our domestic front, consume the world's energies, leaving little interest for safeguarding and conserving Africa's wild edens.
Shomon's engaging and informative text, complemented with attractive photographs and pen-and-ink drawings, encourages those interested in Africa and its wildlife to visit the cradle of our ancestral beginnings and to take an active role in its preservation and conservation.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780890968017
ISBN-10: 0890968012
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 221 x 274 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Texas A&M University Press
Seriile THE LOUISE LINDSEY MERRICK NATURAL ENVIRONMENT SERIES, Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0890968012
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 221 x 274 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Texas A&M University Press
Seriile THE LOUISE LINDSEY MERRICK NATURAL ENVIRONMENT SERIES, Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment (Hardcover)