Lynne Tinley and her husband Ken, who is one of the leading
ecologists in Africa, have devoted many years to a race against
time. On the Etosha Pan, in the isolated and spectacular
wildernesses of Namibia, and later on the other side of the
continent at Gorongosa in Moambique, they set out to gather
information which was urgently needed if the natural ecological
balances of these and other African parks and reserves were to be
preserved. Living in the wilderness they discovered a wealth of
wonders. Sketching this far-off world of risk and hardship in words
and pictures Lynne conveys images of great beauty, controversial
biology, anthropology and veld humour. Moreover she provides a
vivid and entertaining account of how to raise a boy and girl in
the bush. Together the family survives terrorist raids, charging
hippo, elephant and lion, rabid dog bites, baboon spiders, gaboon
vipers, acid-shooting beetles, alcoholic snails, dangling camel
membranes, and the Fat Mouse. They eat elephant trunk
Portuguese-style and termites cooked by bushmen. From
Otjovasandu-"The place where the elephants come through"-to the
wind-swept desert pan at Okaukuejo, to the Cheringoma Plateau,
through burning midday mirage and freezing lion-roaring,
baboon-sobbing nights, with great sensitivity and fatalism, and an
eye for the peculiarities of those who live to survive in the outer
reaches, Lynne Tinley records an incredible, fast-moving period of
human and animal history. Peter Beard Long Island, New York
(written at the Nahoon River Mouth, South Africa in 1979)
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