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'A handy beginner's manual to the region's varied creatures.' Wanderlust 'Bradt Travel Guides simply have the best wildlife coverage of any of the popular guide books.' BBC Wildlife '...a handy one-stop handbook to the region's fauna.' Travel Africa
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Bradt's fully illustrated wildlife guides focus on regions of the world particularly celebrated for their amazing and often unique species. With spectacular photography or exclusive watercolour drawings throughout, each visitors' guide provides an introduction to the region's principal flora and fauna alongside suggested wildlife itineraries, practical information on when to go and what to take and photography tips. Written in a deliberately engaging way, they offer something different from dry field guides, and will appeal to the interested layman as much as the wildlife devotee. Ideal as a lightweight companion to any wildlife trip they also make a handsome souvenir. The wildlife of east Africa is the major visitor attraction of this region, thanks to the legendary game reserves of Serengeti and the Maasai Mara. This new guide provides a colourful overview of the region's variety of large animals together with information on their habits and habitats. The book also provides an excellent introduction to the region's less heralded variety of smaller creatures including 1,500 bird species and butterflies. Accessible and beautifully illustrated, the guide will appeal both to the first-time visitor and to the serious naturalist seeking a compact volume to carry around. It also makes a great souvenir.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very usefull and insightful guide to African wildlife. Not just concerned with the Big 5, this guide covers all bases and will ensure that you turn up talking like a pro!
Well worth the money, buy this guide for any trip you might be goin on in East or South Africa, especially for Safari.
Well worth the money, buy this guide for any trip you might be goin on in East or South Africa, especially for Safari.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Another good book buy Briggs, well written and well researched.
Thorough, easy to read and far more comprehensive than any other guide.
An absolute must for anyone traveling in Africa or anyone on safari. Guaranteed to make anyone seem like a season game-spotter!
Thorough, easy to read and far more comprehensive than any other guide.
An absolute must for anyone traveling in Africa or anyone on safari. Guaranteed to make anyone seem like a season game-spotter!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Good balance between pictures and informative text
28 Aug 2009
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Too many wildlife guidebooks simply display pictures of each species and identifying information. This Bradt's guide is a nice improvement over other books in that I found the text genuinely informative. The book covers birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians by family, with the natural history of each family or species. It goes into the evolution of certain groups and provides interesting insights into the behavior of some of the more famous animals. Indeed, the text reads more easily than most other guidebooks. My wife found herself reading this book during our long drives to different parks and enjoying it immensely.
Note: you might want another more traditional guidebook to help you identify species in the field (I liked Wildlife of East Africa (Princeton Illustrated Checklists)). The Bradt's guide had good pictures, but for some of the less popular animals it might not have enough to help with identification. In particular, Bradt's guide doesn't cover birds in the detail birders might wish (try The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Princeton Field Guides) for birds). However, I think any safari would benefit by combining these books with Bradt's to really understand the wildlife you'll see on safari.
Note: you might want another more traditional guidebook to help you identify species in the field (I liked Wildlife of East Africa (Princeton Illustrated Checklists)). The Bradt's guide had good pictures, but for some of the less popular animals it might not have enough to help with identification. In particular, Bradt's guide doesn't cover birds in the detail birders might wish (try The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Princeton Field Guides) for birds). However, I think any safari would benefit by combining these books with Bradt's to really understand the wildlife you'll see on safari.
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