African Animal Kingdom: A Visual Celebration

kit coppard

Breathtaking and as grandly sized as the countryside and wildlife it captures, every outstanding page in this collection of photographs will leave you completely awestruck by the magnificence of nature. Beginning with the African environment, it first covers the changing landscape, climate, vegetation, and protected national parks and reserves, all so crucial to animals' survival—like the lioness, head lowered and eyes gleaming, clearly on the hunt for food, or the male bush elephant marching across the dry savanna (with Kilimanjaro looming in the background). Truly spectacular shots show lightning streaking across stormy skies, gigantic rifts in the earth, and glorious Victoria Falls. Then, traveling through the different African countries and regions, they go close-up on hundreds of remarkable creatures: a beautiful leopard calmly resting, bathed in the orange glow of the sun; a mountain gorilla playing amid foliage; the jet-black Verreaux's eagle, ready to soar; a hippo, it's huge mouth opened wide; the elusive pygmy crocodile; a graceful spotted bushbuck; and so many others. A richly visual and informative portrait of a continent filled with wonders.

Genres nonfictionafricaanimals

512 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30,2001