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Northern Botswana's pristine wilderness protects some of the earth's most spectacular wildlife: dense concentrations of big-game animals, an amazing wealth of birdlife, and huge herds, roaming from the saltpans of the Kalahari to the lush Okavango Delta. Devoid of the marks of modern man, the landscape still bears the imprints of our ancestors, from the subtle ar...

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Catch a canoe on the Okavango Delta, watch the wildlife at Chobe, lounge in luxurious safari lodges or view the vast Kalahari landscape – Africa’s best-kept secret offers all this and more.

• 40 detailed maps
• 16-page color wildlife safaris: where to go and who can get you there
• hundreds of places to stay and eat for all budge...

From Publishers Weekly
Beginning in the glossy Kennedy era, Thomas Y. Canby traveled the world, creating texts that could stand up to his magazine's famously arresting images. From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years with National Geographic is a memoir written with a journalist's flair, a trained eye for detail and a determination to get the story right, whether remembe...

From Library Journal
Bechky (Adventuring in East Africa, Sierra Club, 1990), who has led many safaris in southern Africa, offers a comprehensive travel guide to a region that constitutes the southern third of the African continent. A wealth of useful information is crammed into these pages, illustrated with photographs by the author. An overview provides facts about the region a...

From Publishers Weekly
Clark ( Wild Eden ) looks back on a life of adventure and personal difficulty in Africa. Raised in a Rhodesian mining town, she started a farm near Bulawayo and lived for many years in a tent on an island in the Okavango Swamp Delta in Bechuanaland (now Botswana). She and her first husband hunted crocodiles, ran safaris and convinced the local tribes to cr...

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Text: German

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From Publishers Weekly
Born in summer rain in the mountains of Angola, the Okavango River flows into northwestern Botswana, where, after 1000 kilometers, it invades the Kalahari Desert, creating one of the world's great wetlands. Here is a vast and verdant delta of tree-fringed islands and secret waterways with beds of papyrus, hippo grass and water lilies. The abundance of wate...

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Midwest Book Review
Any heading to South Africa for a holiday will appreciate a take-along tote which includes the best lodging and touring choices in the country. This provides an important key to moving around the country and joins only a relative handful of other guides on South Africa, making it an important take-along planner. --This text refers to an out of print or un...

Ingram
The most complete handbook to one of Africa's most beautiful regions offers advice on watching wildlife, information about Victoria Falls, the region's ancient sights--from the rock art of the Tsodilo Hills to the stone palaces of Great Zimbabwe--and sensitive discussions of environmental issues, music, history, and contemporary culture. Full-color wildlife guide.

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Amazon.com
Most Westerners, thanks to television documentaries and numerous books, have some inkling of the appalling destruction of Africa's many ecosystems and the animal species that live in them. Fewer are aware of the work being done in several African nations to preserve these ecosystems. The noted travel photographer Frans Lanting takes us into one protected area, the Oka...

Synopsis
Botswana is a very special place - it is one of the few pristine and unspoilt environments left in the world, and offers an unequalled opportunity to study Africa's wildlife. From big game to a wide diversity of birdlife, insects, reptiles and plant life. From the national parks of Moremi and Chobe, favourites to visitors from all over the world, to the fascination of t...

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Ingram
From cosmopolitan cities to the rural splendor of the great Karroo and Mountain Zebra National Park, here's practical information on touring Southern Africa, compiled in a route-based format, with alternate rail transportation suggestions. 16 color photos. 60 maps & plans.

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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-4-A collection of loosely connected facts and observations of African wildlife. Sections of Zingg's narrative concern personal encounters with animals that he and a film crew experienced on their travels. However, readers are plunged into mid-safari at the start of the book and never learn if the travellers reach their destination. Because no ...

Ingram
Featuring a wide range of options for restaurants and accommodations, practical information on health, visas, and transportation, itineraries for varying time frames, comprehensive overviews of the politics and culture of each area, plus comprehensive maps and a 32-page color safari section, this guide offers the best travel information available for Zimbabwe, Botswana, a...

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