Okavango: Africa's Wetland Wilderness

by Adrian Bailey (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $16.88

  Presents a record of a year spent in this Eden. The Okavango is a dramatic setting, and is host to an ever-unfolding performance by the creatures that live here. It seemed fitting, therefore, to present the book in the metaphor of a drama, in which the stage and props are provided by the natural setting, the cast by its animal inhabitants great and small, and the drama itself by their constant activities and interactions, which are repeated every year to the rhythm of the seasons and the ever-changing landscapes.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.48

  The focus of this book is the broad delta region, including the panhandle and Moremi Wildlife Reserve and also Lake Ngami. The author has spent more than a year in the Okavango region, capturing its many landscapes and wildlife inhabitants in the different seasons of the year and in different moods. He seeks to present this part of Africa in a novel and enchanting way, as he uses the analogy of a stage play or drama to portray life in the delta. To achieve this he divides the book into three parts, part one analogous to the stage-sets, part two an introduction to the players or characters , and the third section the unfolding drama as the players take their places and act out their parts in this desert oasis.