Mammals; primates; bats; insectivores; elephant shrews; hares; rodents; carnivores; pangolins; aardvark; hyraxes; elephant; horses; rhinos; hippos; pigs; chevrotain; deer; giraffes; bovines; antelopes; African environments; conservation.
"Travellers and students of wildlife should take notice--this
volume sets the standard for the field. . . . A childhood in
British East Africa and more than 25 years of producing atlases of
the mammals have equipped Kingdon with a possibly unrivaled
knowledge of his subjects, and this yields unusual and
thought-provoking insights. . . . As an artist and sculptor who
works in abstract, impressionistic and illustrative styles, Kingdon
brings an immediacy to his drawings that escapes all other field
guides. . . . The 1150 or so mammals that earn a place in his book
are not just represented by the usual police-style profiles, but
also by pictures of gripping emotion and playful
naughtiness--usually several, sometimes many, for each species. . .
. Buy this book for yourself and for anyone else who likes nature
just to know that you possess several thousand of Kingdon's
wonderful drawings. . . . This is quite simply a superb and
authoritative work by an author of unsurpassed credentials and
talent for his task. Everybody will delight in it."---Mark
Pagel, Nature
"For anyone planning an African safari, this guide should be as
essential as binoculars."---David Tomlinson, New
Scientist
"All naturalists resident in or visiting the continent should have
a copy. It is much more than a field guide."---Jeremy J D
Greenwood, Habitat
"A good field guide, whatever its subject, is a delight to have on
one's bookshelf, and this one is a topper. One main, magnificent
first for this guide is that it covers all known mammals of Africa,
not just the large ones. This is an exquisite book to have, even if
you have no intention to ever visit Africa (but then you are likely
to change your mind after this Kingdon experience)."---Hans
Kruuk, Mammal News
"Since the appearance of his seven-volume encyclopaedia of East
African mammals in the 1970's, Kingdon has become a figure of high
distinction in conservationist circles. His extraordinary talents
as a writer and painter have been dedicated to astonishingly
beautiful and detailed records of African fauna and the ecosystems
that sustain them. This makes his new field guide rather more than
a handbook. . . . The richness of information is exemplary. The
illustrations would make a big cat purr. . . . . It is one of
Kingdon's strengths, both as a naturalist and as an artist, that he
is interested in how animals look and feel to each other. . . . His
drawings and paintings stress the elegant functionality of body
geometry, the way animals use facial and body patterns for visual
signalling."---John Ryle, Guardian
"This is a handy, nicely prepared pocket field guide covering every
species of terrestrial African mammal and is the essential
reference work to be carried along by anyone traveling in
Africa."---Rovert E. Hoopes, Wildlife
Activist
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