Evocative AfricaTravel Book Bundle (2 Books)

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Two gorgeous books full of vibrant images and informative commentary - perfect for nature lovers, especially those who want to discover more of Africa and her abundant beauty.

Kalahari Summer: In Photographs and Oils by Robert Grogan

Although for many visitors the Kalahari evokes images of a vast dry desert of thirsty red sands, it is the capricious summer landscape that has lured Robert Grogan back to this region for more than 30 years. He has braved unpredictable storms, impassable roads, fierce heat and humidity, insects and tall grass for the chance to paint the summer cloud banks and startling transformations rendered by the rains. He has photographed, too, the iconic wildlife, as well as seasonal delights, such as butterflies, wildflowers and the springbok lambing season.
Gathered together for the first time in a vibrant collection, his landscape paintings and magnificent wildlife photographs bring the Kalahari's lush and beautiful summer season vividly to life.

Evocative Africa: Ventures of Discovery by Gerald Cubitt

Come on a journey with Africa's finest nature photographer to lands of time-honoured cultural traditions and unspoiled natural wilderness. Here is the 'real Africa' - astonishing in its diversity of wildlife, breathtaking in its natural beauty and unforgettable in its bursting floral kingdom. Evocative Africa is a visual journey taking the reader through Gerald Cubitt's selection of the 'unmissable' in sub-Saharan Africa. This extensive collection of images juxtaposes the scale and grandeur of the continent with an intimate attention to smaller, less obvious wonders. The informative commentary reveals the social, ecological and geographical context of the images. The book bursts with a multitude of images. The reader will be immersed in South Africa, will visit Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana and Namibia. Just offshore, no lifetime's safari on the east coast of Africa can ignore Madagascar, perhaps the most compelling hotspot of biodiversity in the world. Four and a half years have gone into the design and preparation of this book and the endeavour of the photographer and publisher is to make Evocative Africa the best of its kind ever produced in South Africa: a book that captures the magic and character of the 'real Africa' - its timeless wildlife and wilderness, its colourful and proud ethnic heritage and, of course, its stunning diversity of landscape. It represents the culmination of many years of photographing Africa, her people, her places and her wildlife. It celebrates destinations we can all enjoy, showing them in a new light, giving us many moments of delight from places we already know to be astonishing.