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Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Ser.: Wild Edens : Africa's Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife by Joseph James Shomon (1998, Hardcover)

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Africa's great game parks house thousands of the world's most incredible wildlife, including the elephant, rhino, zebra, and gorilla, but along with this beauty comes a desperate struggle for existence. This living legacy faces the possibility of becoming extinct because of ignorance and apathy. 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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Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
0890968012
ISBN-13
9780890968017
eBay Product ID (ePID)
470417

Product Key Features

Author
Joseph James Shomon
Publication Name
Wild Edens : Africa's Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Ser.
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
10.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
26.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
27
Lc Classification Number
Sk571.S48 1998
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ï¿½A moving tribute to the major game parks of Africa, Wild Edens is also a good introduction to the wonders of one of the last great wildlife spectacles on the planet. The author, a wildlife conservationist, takes the reader on a journey through the parks of East and South Africa. Starting with Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest on the continent, Shomon visits such well-known areas as Amboseli (Kenya), the Serengeti (Tanzania), the Okavango (Botswana), and Kruger (South Africa). Filled with personal anecdotes from his many trips to the preserves, the authorï¿½s descriptions . . . have an immediacy that is appealing. The authorï¿½s black-and-white photographs (plus two sections of color photos) . . . further enhance the bookï¿½s travelogue quality.ï¿½--Nancy Bent, "A moving tribute to the major game parks of Africa,Wild Edensis also a good introduction to the wonders of one of the last great wildlife spectacles on the planet. The author, a wildlife conservationist, takes the reader on a journey through the parks of East and South Africa. Starting with Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest on the continent, Shomon visits such well-known areas as Amboseli (Kenya), the Serengeti (Tanzania), the Okavango (Botswana), and Kruger (South Africa). Filled with personal anecdotes from his many trips to the preserves, the author's descriptions . . . have an immediacy that is appealing. The author's black-and-white photographs (plus two sections of color photos) . . . further enhance the book's travelogue quality."--Nancy Bent, "A moving tribute to the major game parks of Africa, Wild Edens is also a good introduction to the wonders of one of the last great wildlife spectacles on the planet. The author, a wildlife conservationist, takes the reader on a journey through the parks of East and South Africa. Starting with Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest on the continent, Shomon visits such well-known areas as Amboseli (Kenya), the Serengeti (Tanzania), the Okavango (Botswana), and Kruger (South Africa). Filled with personal anecdotes from his many trips to the preserves, the author's descriptions . . . have an immediacy that is appealing. The author's black-and-white photographs (plus two sections of color photos) . . . further enhance the book's travelogue quality."--Nancy Bent
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Africa / General, Animals / Wildlife, General, Endangered Species
Lccn
97-053174
Dewey Decimal
508.676
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel

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