OF HOMININS, HUNTER-GATHERERS AND HEROES: SEARCHING FOR 20 AMAZING PLACES IN SOUTH AFRICA BY DAVID BRISTOL. SOFTCOVER, 247 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES. Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known places in South Africa. Who knew that on the West Coast, just an hours drive from Cape Town, is one of only three places on earth where you can see the fossils of creatures that lived in antediluvian times and died right where you see them now? Or that all Bushman art, whether painted or engraved, is a conversation with the spirit world? Bristow ventured to some lesser-known places such as the West Coast Fossil Park, Mapungubwe, Hogsback, Lambazi Bay, Port Grosvenor, and Nieu Bethesda, as well as some old favourites, like the Garden Route, Kruger National Park, Cape Point, and the Johannesburg war museum, which each get a new treatment here.
MAN-EATERS, MAMBAS AND MARUBA MADNESS: A GAME RANGER'S LIFE IN THE LOWVELD BY MARIO CESARE. SOFTCOVER, 401 PAGES, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. What started as a vision about the Olifants River Game Reserve has become the story of a game ranger s lifeHe tells his story here and provides a wealth of lessons on conservation as well as stories of life in the bush, as it is enjoyed only by those fortunate enough to live on a Big Five reserve. With a naturalist s eye for detail as well as the bigger picture of managing a fragile ecosystem through years of drought and plenty, Mario Cesare brings a storyteller s delight and a dash of Italian passion to sharing his world.Life-and-death encounters with lion, elephant and buffalo are balanced by rescues and interventions as these giants of the lowveld suffer the effects of human interference in their ecosystem. There are problems with poachers and with rapacious neighbors; then the delights of success and in the case of the elephant population, the conundrums of too much success.
