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| Ngorongoro | 
| Author: Reinhard Kunkel
Creator: Benjamin William Mkapa
Publisher: Welcome Books
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 162529
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.9
Dimensions (in): 13.8 x 10.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1599620189
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9781599620183
ASIN: 1599620189
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
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Product Description
Two and a half million years ago, in what is today Northern Tanzania, the top blew off a gigantic volcanic mountain leaving behind one of the biggest craters in the world. Over the millennia the crater became a national park for wildlife. Herbivores followed vegetation to the Ngorongoro and predators followed herbivores. Men followed, too, hunting for the tusks of rhinos and elephants, and the coats of the zebra. Rangers, photographers, and anthropologists came, too, to the place that many call the Garden of Eden. Reinhard Kunkel's beautiful, often astonishing, sometimes startling images, alongside landscapes of a primeval grandeur, make this book a triumph of wildlife photography.
Reinhard Kunkel has been photographing there since 1973. He has lived with and shot the land and the animals - the lions, elephants, eagles, buffalo and hippopotamuses -- for the last thirty years. He has shot them mating, raising their young, killing their prey. He has watched herds of buffalo charge and scatter lions, followed the egrets searching for insects in the steps of the rhinos, stayed up nights waiting for the female rhino to accept the advances of the male, observed jackals and vultures staring each other down in confrontation over a kill, and the flamingoes feasting on the abundant blue-green algae. Unrivalled in the richness and diversity of its animal and plant life, Ngorongoro has been called the eighth wonder of the world.
The original edition of this book was published in the United States in 1992. Updated with new photographs and extended by a new 16-page signature on the Maasai, it is an unrivalled work of design and production. Limited to 5,000 copies world wide.
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Ngorogoro August 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Breathtaking photography. Kunkel has captured the atmosphere so brilliantly that I felt as though I was back in this spectacular place. Bravo!
now you have to go yourself July 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you ever had the desire to go to Africa and take pictures this is the book that will cause you to sell the house to make the desire come true. The photography is beyond the norm. Inspiring where mere words could not do justice. Well done in all ways.
Beautiful book June 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a lovely book - the photographs are breathtaking. I gave it as a gift to a professional photographer.
I ordered it from the UK, and it arrived in a few days. Excellent!
 Ngorongoro revisited March 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The high quality of the book (paper, photo's, layout) let us relive our trip to the crater. There are some really spectacular photo's. The photographer captured with his camera the beautiful but also raw daily life of one of the most amazing spots on this planet.
A Fantastic Collection of Wildlife Photos September 6, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After having visited East Africa (and Ngorongoro) 3 times and looked at dozens of wildlife photo books, I entirely agree with the previous review that this is one of the most fantastic collections of wildlife pictures. Till this day I regret not having bought the book while it was still available. I hope the publisher will reprint it (as happened with "African Elephants" also by Kunkel).
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