Wild at Heart: Mam and Beast in Southern Africa

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.

Peter Godwin grew up in the Zimbabwe bush. He attended university in England before becoming an award-winning foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Times and the BBC. He now resides in New York and contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, Time, and Newsweek. Godwin is the author of four books- Mukiwa- A White Boy in Africa, an international best-seller with approximately 100,000 copies in print; Rhodesians Never Die; The Three of US; and A New Life in New York.