Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park: World Heritage Sites of South Africa (World Heritage Sites of South Africa Travel Guides) [Paperback]

Philip Briggs (Author)

Book Description

Series: World Heritage Sites of South Africa Travel Guides | Publication Date: August 13, 2008

Let Southbound take you to a very special place on the south-eastern coast of Africa - to the Elephant Coast of the Zulu Kingdom in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, where you'll find the breathtakingly beautiful, 260,000-hectare Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park. From whales to tropical fish, from rhino to its unique birdlife, this patchwork of wetlands, dunes and coastal forest has it all.

Lake St. Lucia, Africa's largest estuary, is home to the greatest congregation of hippos and crocodiles in South Africa

Eight inter-linking ecosystems, 3 major lake systems, 220km of Indian Ocean coastline and beaches

190km of marine reserve with 100 species of coral

Five tribal groups, 700 years of traditional fish traps

129 mammal, 128 reptile, 526 bird, 1,039 fish and 282 butterfly species

The last major breeding ground for the giant leatherback and loggerhead turtles

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About the Author

DAVID FLEMINGER'S first book, Back Roads of the Cape, was published in 2005. He has also written 6 other guides in the Southbound Pocket Guides series. He has also worked in many different aspects of the media industry - as a scriptwriter, director, editor, post-production supervisor, interviewer and producer. He has written and directed theatre shows, TV series and educational videos and is studying for an MA in Tourism & Heritage Studies at Wits University. A born-and-bred Jo'burger, he lives in the northern suburbs with sundry pets and housemates. Much to his mother's mounting despair he is still single but spends his time watching theatre, cricket and walking his dogs in the park.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: 30 Degrees South (August 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0958489173
• ISBN-13: 978-0958489171
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,175,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

African travel specialist Philip Briggs has been exploring the highways, byways and backwaters of the world's most challenging and exciting continent since 1986, when he spent several months backpacking on a shoestring from Nairobi to Cape Town. In 1991, he wrote the Bradt Guide to South Africa, the first such guidebook to be published internationally after the release of Nelson Mandela.

Over the rest of the 1990s, Philip wrote a series of pioneering Bradt Guides to destinations that were then - and in some cases still are - otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry. These included the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana and Rwanda (co-authored with Janice Booth), all of which are now in their 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th edition.

Philip has visited more than two dozen African countries, and written about most of them, whether it be for guidebook publishers such as AA, APA-Insight, Berlitz, Camerapix, Dorling Kindersley, Frommers, Struik-New Holland and 30 Degrees South, or for specialist travel and wildlife magazines including Africa Birds & Birding, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa and Wanderlust.

He still spends at least four months on the road every year, and spends his rest of the time battering away at a keyboard in the sleepy dorp of Bergville, in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg region of South Africa. He is married to the travel photographer Ariadne Van Zandbergen and lives with three dogs and a cat. When not obssessing over some or other aspect of African history, culture, wildlife or travel, Philip's interests include music, reading and walking.