Publisher's Synopsis
In a distant corner of the Northern Cape, daunting by its desert nature, alluring in its diversity, lies the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Second only to the Kruger National Park in area, it has never attained the heights of public attention it rightly deserves.;Its initially forbidding countenance of ancient dunes and extreme heat and cold gives way to spectacular beauty and wildlife. There is no place where the cycle of birth, death and survival is not continuous. Some of it is on a small scale with a host of creatures occupying the dunes and pans. Often, it is easily visible among the gemsbok and lion, the leopards, cheetah and springbok and other antelope, as well as the wide array of birds, from raptors to weavers.;This book is a narrative safari that gives the history of the park. The personalities of the multitude of creatures which create its daily rhythms of life are also woven into the book. It is illustrated with photographs from, among others, the Anthony Bannister Photo Library, which represents some of South Africa's finest wildlife photographers.
