Elephants of Africa

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Summary: The pride of a continent
Review: This book on the African Elephant follows the trail from Gourma Elephant Reserve in Mali, through the rest of West and Central Africa to Kenya on the east coast. It then turns south to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa, to end in the Addo Elephant National Park.

The engaging text deals with all the most pressing issues of elephant biology and conservation, including poaching, climatic change, the ivory trade and human population increase.

Lavishly illustrated, the book contains reproductions of 24 paintings of elephants in their various habitats, plus beautiful colour cameos and striking pencil drawings of elephants and other animals like the bat-eared fox, the graceful impala, buffalo, the fish eagle, vervet monkey, sable antelope and zebra.

The book contains biological data on African elephants, a list of acronyms, a glossary, bibliography and index. The dust jacket provides biographies and a portrait of artist Paul Bosman and writer Anthony Hall-Martin.

This impressive collaboration will appeal to all those interested in wildlife, conservation, wildlife art and armchair travel. Since its publication, much has already changed on the continent, so Elephants Of Africa has already become an historical record of lasting value.