FOREWORD BY NELSON MANDELA: Johns and Godwin photographed and interviewed Nelson Mandela during the summer of 2000. Mandela, in a remarkable tribute to their unique work, will contribute a Foreword to this book. UNPRECEDENTED PHOTOGRAPHS: Chris Johns spent six years recording Africa's spellbinding wildlife, and diverse peoples. His rare talent and dedication resulted in photographs of never-before-seen animal behavior and an intimate depiction of African peoples. COMPELLING STORIES: Peter Godwin tells true tales he has heard from a thousand tribespeople, farmers, and rangers over the years, the sort of yarns that keep tourists enthralled at lodges across the continent and keep them coming back for more. UNIQUE CONSERVATION MESSAGE: This book tells the conservation story in a new, up-to-the-minute way, describing a plan backed by Nelson Mandela for the establishment of Peace Parks throughout Africa. These parks would provide safe corridors for animal migration that cut across national borders. The authors show, in their beautiful, story-telling work, how all life is connected. The book makes the point that unexpected results may come from even the most well-meaning conservation efforts: helping save one animal can bring threats to another. WILD AT HEART tells its story by weaving together stunning photographs and anecdotal text. The combined words and photographs take the reader on a page-turning journey that, step-by-step, reveals the tangled relationships among animals, people, and geography. Each installment in this journey tells a unique story and also illuminates how different facets of African life are intertwined and dependent on other realities of the African world. The authors show the various collisions that result from isolated viewpoints, such as the single-minded focus on conserving one species without regard for overall bio-diversity, and they speculate on prospects for a future based upon understanding that, ultimately, everything is related. where there are collisions between tradition and modernity, between conservation and development, between people and animals.
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Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic magazine, was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1979 while a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal. Before joining National Geographic magazine in 1995 and becoming senior editor of illustrations in 2001, Johns worked as a freelance photographer for Life, Time, and National Geographic. The author of Valley of Life: Africa's Great Rift, he lives with his family on a farm in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
Peter Godwin grew up in the Zimbabwe bush and attended university in England before becoming an award-winning foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Times and the BBC. He is the author of four books, including Rhodesians Never Die and Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa. He lives in New York. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Peter Godwin grew up in the Zimbabwe bush and attended university in England before becoming an award-winning foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Times and the BBC. He is the author of four books, including Rhodesians Never Die and Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa. He lives in New York. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa (Hardcover)
I selected this book because I love the wildlife of Southern Africa. And I love them alive and thriving. The large format photographs are beautiful. However, I was shocked at the very pro hunting text written by Peter Godwin. The contents of the book revolted me and I am embarressed to even own this book. It is full of pro-hunting propaganda and the belief that these beautiful creatures need to "pay their own way" by having wealthy tourist hunters pay large summs to kill them to the brink of existence. Sorry, not my cup of tea.
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A feast for the eyes - Wild at Heart,
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This review is from: Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa (Hardcover)
This is not only a stunning coffee table photo book of southern Africa, but has a literate discussion of the animals, their habitat and how the local peoples, tourists, hunters, naturalists, ecowarriers and conservationists are impacting this area. The authors are preeminant National Geographic photographer Chris Johns and essayist Peter Godwin. The other reviewer obviously has a point of view that I did not find. I mean, Nelson Mandela wrote the foreward! This book is for those who love great African wildlife photos and appreciate well written essays on what is happening to and around the animals.
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