Author: Mitch and Margot Reardon
Where life proliferates, so will death. Out on the plains, once the dust has settled and warm blood flows, an urgent, unreasoning hunger will be satisfied. There is an elementary beauty in such pragmatism. It is not ironic, but fundamental and perpetuating, that to successfully balance nature's pyramid of life, the death of a beast is required.
As the world's savannas gradually shrink before man's onslaught and our natural wild life is increasingly threatened , Etosha - the 2,4 million-hectare reserve in north-western Namibia - is still undisturbed in parts, and remains a reminder of the old Africa ; and Africa where life and death were governed only by Nature's forces; a world where the seasons' cycles still form a backdrop against which the predators and their pray play out their predestined roles.
It was in this world that Mitch and Margot Reardon spent three years, photographing the animals whose lives and deaths they chronicled, and which are the subjects of this book. It was here, through personal observation and a sound knowledge of current research, that the couple evolved their emotive yet realistic philosophy about the creatures of Etosha.
Good condition.
Hardcover, 29cm x 23cm, 159 pages.