Game Ranger in Your Backpack All-in-One Interpretive Guide to the Lowveld

Author - Megan Emmett; Sean Pattrick
Publisher - Briza; 2017; First edition, eighth imprint
A very good quarto softcover book.
352 pages.
This book is not a conventional field guide in the sense that it will not provide reams of dreary detail on how to identify a particular plant or bird (although it does offer useful pointers of features to look for). Rather, tis book is intended to substitute for the presence of a personal guide or 'game ranger' during visits to the Lowveld region of South Africa. it makes the practical, interpretive information on the most commonly encountered species in the Lowveld, accessible at a glance and eliminates the need to have several different books piled on the seat beside you. It is a compact companion that not only offers interesting information on wildlife topics including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, invertebrates, trees, grasses, flowers and tracks but it is also visually interpretative offering hundreds of images to assist with the deciphering or the recognition of common species.