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Endangered Liaisons Hardcover – September 15, 2008

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Alarus Press; First edition (September 15, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0615213456
  • ISBN-13: 978-0615213453
  • Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.7 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #989,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsAn intimate experience with a hidden world
By Rtrout on October 3, 2008
Format: Hardcover
This beautiful volume immediately attracted me with its vivid and beautifully reproduced photos, but it's the author's intimate recollections of his many visits to Africa that lingered when I turned the final page. With language as lush as the landscapes he describes yet as down-to-earth as the species he painstakingly profiles, Shay increasingly articulates his lifelong love affair with a place so removed from our day-to-day lives.

This is a rare coffee table book that provides a vicarious experience for someone who has never been on safari or visited Africa. The photos are by turns striking, immediate, humorous, and startling. The text is both informative and personal, and reveals the character of someone with a deep passion and sense of wonder.

I imagine the book would also deeply stir anyone who has had the fortune to see these sights and been lucky enough to visit this land that Shay so lovingly describes.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExquisite Africa....
By M. Raats on September 14, 2008
Format: Hardcover
For people who love Africa and her wildlife, Endangered Liaisons is in my opinion a 'must have'. Written and compiled by Don Shay, this sumptuous book is a treat that will sit comfortably on any coffee table - be it in Cape Town, Cairo, Zürich or New York.

While there are many examples of this genre in circulation today, this publication is unique because not only is each page bursting with the most perfectly composed photographic experiences, but Don Shay also shares with the reader his experiences, his thoughts and what he has learned sometimes, in the most disarmingly honest way.

Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Rwanda.... the list goes on and it includes more places visited than almost any other African I know. Not only do we have up intimate experiences of Lion, Elephant and Leopard, but we readers also indulge in other equally exotic cocktails like, Hamerkop, Lilac-breasted Roller and Gorilla.

This is not a work of fake tanned chests, khaki shirts and David Livingstone style bravado. As native of Africa myself I was thrilled to see that Don Shay has taken the trouble to learn and absorb Africa and to experience her unbeatable panoramas and her hot blooded pulse. But more importantly, I believe that he has bestowed on Africa dignity - sadly, something so often missing even in Africa itself these days.

Exquisite.....
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5.0 out of 5 starsYour coffee table with thank you
By Peter G. Allison on November 2, 2008
Format: Hardcover
There are many books about Africa that you can weigh your coffee table down with. Many have exquisite photographs of a particular region but their text is as lumpy as old porridge. Dedication to one region may also make them a little monotonous.

Endangered Liaisons is different. Don Shay is unfairly blessed with great talent in both photography and writing, and has over the years visited much of Africa. This has given him am insight into the continent that even some of its full time residents lack. As a safari guide, this is the book I would recommend people read before coming on a trip to Africa.

Peter Allison, author of Whatever You Do, Don't Run - True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide.
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
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5.0 out of 5 starsA stunningly beautiful coffee-table book of African wildlife photography
By Midwest Book Review on October 11, 2008
Format: Hardcover
Endangered Liaisons is a stunningly beautiful coffee-table book of African wildlife photography. From the lunge of a hyena warding off the carrion bird that would compete for its kill, to a Nile monitor on the prowl, to dwarf mongooses populating a termite mound den to a close-up of the crowned crane and much more, Endangered Liaisons is a wondrous glimpse of nature's creatures, sometimes even at their more inopportune moments - like a zebra rolling the dust, and even copulating elephants! Most of the photographs are allowed to speak for themselves, but the text frequently comments on the challenges and threats to the survival of the animal species, from habitat destruction to human predation to inbreeding among their own gene pool. The perfect giftbook for wildlife lovers, a welcome addition to photography shelves, and truly an amazing sight to behold from cover to cover.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA safarist's delight.
By vlawrence5 VINE VOICE on August 5, 2010
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Its cryptic title may serve to conceal "Endangered Liaisons" from too large a number of potential readers or just admirers of its photographs, but the coordination requisite to organizing a wildlife safari is indeed endangered at every connection. Escalating airfares, threatening travel advisories, health precautions, fees for visas and visa services, as well as interminable air travel conspire against safari planners. But safari aficionados Jerry Dale, his acolyte Don Shay, and I recognize the liaisons among the animals of Africa and especially between them and people as those most endangered. It is particularly the latter, I believe, that prompted Shay to relate such detailed and engaging accounts of his and wife Estelle's safari experiences spanning 20 years.

Shay's most receptive audience is likely to consist of his fellow trip planners who accompany our clients on each safari we organize, and perhaps other safariphiles whose passion for Africa's wildlife and wild places mandates repeated visits. To me his descriptions of the wildlife parks and reserves of the various countries, their characteristic species, the lodges and camps, even his driver/guides are spot-on. I have found no other source expounding the ambiance of a game drive in a manner more comprehensively summarizing my own experience.

The vivid images conveyed by Shay's photographs and prose are nearly paralleled by their accuracy. I'm certain the caption to his photograph of a white-backed vulture on page 59 is merely mislabeled "white-headed." Referring to African sleeping sickness as "a lethal form of encephalitis" (p. 96) is misleading at best.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent and well written Safari Book

Best Safari Book published since 2009. Any who enjoy wildlife should have this book. Particular safaris in some of the best wildlife areas in all of Africa. Enjoy!!!

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I have finished Endangered Liaisons with sorrow that the read is over. Great photography!! - different from the usual; remarkably realistic. Gives one a sense of being there. Mr. Read more

Published on April 23, 2009 by ebear1357
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I have never been to Africa and may never get to go, but after reading Don Shay's absorbing memoir of his many trips with his wife and friends I feel as though I can picture what... Read more

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"Endangered Liaisons" by Don Shay is, quite simply, a wonderful book. It not only features truly extraordinary photographs of Africa and its many animals, but also offers a rich... Read more

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I purchased this book as a Christmas present for my daughter who has everything. She has been to Africa and loves it and is always looking for pictures and information about... Read more

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