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| Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa | 
| Author: Peter Godwin
Creators: Nelson Mandela, Chris Johns
Publisher: National Geographic
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 482082
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 15.3 x 10.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 142620194X
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9540968
EAN: 9781426201943
ASIN: 142620194X
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! Has a publisher remainder mark. Reissue. 2007 Hardcover.
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Product Description
Reprising the years-long, in-depth collaboration that produced much of National Geographic magazine's coverage of southern Africa, award-winning photographer Chris Johns and veteran foreign correspondent Peter Godwin present this important critical exploration of the region's myriad facets and its collisions between tradition and modernity, conservation and development, and people and animals.
In evocative photographs and accompanying anecdotal text, Wild at Heart crisscrosses southern Africa—from the Kalahari Desert and Drakensburg Mountains to the Skeleton coast and Zambesi River—to reveal its diverse populations and wildlife and highlight their often unacknowledged interdependence. Johns's superb photographs of wildlife, including cheetahs, rhinos, and elephants, and his sensitive portraits of Himba pastoralists, San Bushmen hunter-gatherers, Zulu farmers, and other populations are combined with Godwin's passionate, lyric stories that both entertain and enlighten. The result is a finely detailed yet panoramic image of southern Africa that underscores the indissoluble connections between all its elements and speculates on the prospects for a future based on understanding those connections.
Beautifully presented in a unique, oversize format with a top-opening spine that allows gallery-quality presentation of the images, Wild at Heart is destined to become a classic.
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 A feast for the eyes - Wild at Heart February 29, 2008
This is not only a stunning coffee table photo book of southern Africa, but has a literate discussion of the animals, their habitat and how the local peoples, tourists, hunters, naturalists, ecowarriers and conservationists are impacting this area. The authors are preeminant National Geographic photographer Chris Johns and essayist Peter Godwin. The other reviewer obviously has a point of view that I did not find. I mean, Nelson Mandela wrote the foreward! This book is for those who love great African wildlife photos and appreciate well written essays on what is happening to and around the animals.
 I was so surprised..... February 7, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I selected this book because I love the wildlife of Southern Africa. And I love them alive and thriving. The large format photographs are beautiful. However, I was shocked at the very pro hunting text written by Peter Godwin. The contents of the book revolted me and I am embarressed to even own this book. It is full of pro-hunting propaganda and the belief that these beautiful creatures need to "pay their own way" by having wealthy tourist hunters pay large summs to kill them to the brink of existence. Sorry, not my cup of tea.
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