Africa's great game parks house thousands of the world's most
incredible wildlife, including the elephant, rhino, zebra, and
gorilla, but along with this beauty comes a desperate struggle for
existence. This living legacy faces the possibility of becoming
extinct because of ignorance and apathy. In Wild Edens Africa's
Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife, longtime conservationist and
seasoned African travelerJoseph James Shomon journeys through the
wild African scene, revealing its magnificence and mystique, and
wonderfully describes the game parks' location, ecology, and
irreplaceable wildlife. From the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa's
highest mountain, the author surveys the marvelous Edens of East
Africa, among the last Pleistocene-like concentrations of animals
left in the world today. Descending, Shomon gives a firsthand
account of the great sanctuaries, providing a knowledgeable escort
on safari in the scrublands of Tsavo, where elephants are
imperiled. He continues on to the Ark at Aberdares, where visitors
can watch, under floodlights of a watchtower, rain forest animals
come to feed; to the rain forests of Mount Kenya; and to the
Serengeti and Mara Plains, with their great migrating herds
besieged by predators and thwarted in their journeys by swollen
rivers and flooded lakes. The journey continues through the Great
Rift Valley and Olduvai Gorge to Lake Manyara with its
tree-climbing lions; Ngorongoro Crater; Samburu and Meru, where the
rhino is threatened; the waterways of Uganda; the Mountains of the
Moon; the Kalahari Desert; and the wildlife sanctuaries of South
Africa, ending the tour at the Cape of Good Hope. Shomon argues
that the plethora of impersonal technology and excessive
mechanization, as well as the world's focus on violence, social
ills, and discord on our domestic front, consume the world's
energies, leaving little interest for safeguarding and conserving
Africa's wild edens. Shomon's engaging and informative text,
complemented with attractive photographs and pen-and-ink drawings,
encourages those interested in Africa and its wildlife to visit the
cradle of our ancestral beginnings and to take an active role in
its preservation and conservation.
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