Author: Norman Myers
This may well be the most powerful account ever published on the state of animal life in Africa. It is unique in the author's identification with animals, the intimacy of his descriptions, his photographs, and in the intensity of his feeling concerning the conditions that threaten wildlife-indeed all life-in many parts of East Africa. This book is both 24 hours and 225 million years, for here is one of the last areas where life still can be recapitulated virtually from its beginnings. In the compass of a single day the book introduces us to species that existed when Mount Kilimanjaro rose up, and deals with the earth as a planet on which hundreds of years are but minutes. Mr Myers questions whether this last great refuge of the remnants of a golden age of mammals can survive.
The book is organized into four major divisions: Early Day, Middle Day, Late Day, and Into the Night, and it covers in rich detail the daily lives of dozens of species.
Fair condition.
Hardcover, 29cm x 23cm, 404 pages.