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Currents of Contrast: Life in Southern Africa's Two Oceans [Hardcover]

Thomas P. Peschak (Author, Photographer), Claudio Velasquez Rojas (Photographer)

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Publication Date: 1 April 2005

Currents of Contrast - Life in Southern Africa's Two Oceans introduces the marine and coastal life associated with the oceans that surround southern Africa. Two dominant currents feed these oceans, the cold Benguela in the west and the warmer Agulhas current in the east. The book is divided into two main parts, the first dealing with the colder waters of the Benguela and the second, with the realm of the Agulhas. A feature of the Benguela current is the water's most feared predator, the great white shark around which many myths abound. Also found here are rich forests of kelp that are nourished by the nutrient-rich waters; seabirds thrive on offshore islands and along the coast shoreline predators - jackals, lions and hyaenas - interestingly turn to the cold ocean for food along Namibia's desert coast. In the realm of the Agulhas (southern and east coasts), readers are introduced to the Knysna estuary and its magical and threatened seahorse; the phenomena of the sardine run; to the Tembe Tonga people, a group that lives in careful harmony with the ocean, to timeless turtles and the enigmatic coelacanth - a fish that time forgot. An accessible and informative text is supported by superb colour photography throughout.

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Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Struik Publishers (1 April 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1770070869
ISBN-13: 978-1770070868
Product Dimensions: 30 x 27.4 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,625,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Thomas P. Peschak, marine biologist, wildlife photographer, author and filmmaker works at the University of Cape Town's Marine Biology Research Institute and is currently completing his PhD. He is an experienced field biologist and research diver, who has worked on many scientific expeditions to remote corners of Africa, Central America, the Middle East and the South Pacific. After obtaining his B.Sc and M.Sc at Chile's Universidad Austral de Chile, Claudio Velasquez Rojas travelled to South Africa in the late 1980s. In 1993 he received a Ph.D in Zoology for his research on wading birds in the Berg River estuary. Claudio now works for Francois Odendaal Film Productions as a producer/director. His photographs have been published in magazines such as Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife and National Geographic and in books including The Last Edens of Africa and Aspects of Life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Currents of Contrast - Life in Southern Africa's Two Oceans 15 Jun 2005

By Holly Winter Langer

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I always wanted to be a marine biologist and having just read Currents of Contrast - Life in Southern Africa's Two Oceans I want to be one even more. It has completely opened my eyes to the amazing diversity of life found in southern Africa's two oceans, and enlightened me to another world that before reading it I knew existed but knew nothing about. The style of writing made this a book I could not put down - not only because it was so informative but also because it was so entertaining. His photography is out of this world and I hung on every chapter - leaving each place I was taken to or each character that was introduced with such familiarity that perhaps I can be forgiven for imagining I now belong to the marine world. My favourite chapter? An impossible question to answer - I love the enchanting world of the kelp forest and the magical underwater photographs of dancing kelp silhouetted against the penetrating sunlight. I now see the great white shark as a graceful creature - often totally misunderstood, and I absolutely adore the Cape clawless otter. From seabirds flying in aerial formation on the sardine run to the mysterious realm of the Coelacanth Currents of Contrast is a wonderful story of Southern African's two oceans, and I have just started reading it again!

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