Southern Africa's Beautiful Deserts The Big Picture
BEAUTIFUL DESERTS brings you an outstanding display of some of the most remarkable landscapes and creatures in the world. The photographs reveal the captivating and artistic style of the Van den Berg photographers. They depict the different facets of desert regions in a new and dramatic way, with large, bold images. The book has a strikingly minimalistic design and the large format follows the ‘Big Picture’ theme first introduced with the book GREATER KRUGER - The Big Picture (2004). The concise yet informative text is by the well-known authors Gordon and Cherie Maclean.
More than half of South Africa falls within a desert region, as do the larger parts of Botswana and almost the whole of Namibia. The entire region is about 1.6 million square kilometres in extent — an area larger than the combined land surfaces of France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Of all the world’s arid regions, the southern African deserts are biologically the most diverse. In spite of their apparently lifeless appearance, they support an astonishing diversity of animals and plants that have evolved unique ways of surviving in an almost waterless environment. Deserts and semi-deserts are fragile ecosystems. Several national, provincial and private nature and game reserves have been established in the different desert regions, and serve as gateways to the beauty and diversity found in desert places.
A visit may be the beginning of a great addiction, since sand in your shoes has a way of making you want to return again and again. This book will give you a similar pleasure, because in it you will see the deserts through the keen perceptions and the camera lens of those who have themselves fallen under the spell of these fascinating and lonely places.
HPH Publishing 2005
ISBN: 0620343435
Condition: As New
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BEAUTIFUL DESERTS brings you an outstanding display of some of the most remarkable landscapes and creatures in the world. The photographs reveal the captivating and artistic style of the Van den Berg photographers. They depict the different facets of desert regions in a new and dramatic way, with large, bold images. The book has a strikingly minimalistic design and the large format follows the ‘Big Picture’ theme first introduced with the book GREATER KRUGER - The Big Picture (2004). The concise yet informative text is by the well-known authors Gordon and Cherie Maclean.
More than half of South Africa falls within a desert region, as do the larger parts of Botswana and almost the whole of Namibia. The entire region is about 1.6 million square kilometres in extent — an area larger than the combined land surfaces of France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Of all the world’s arid regions, the southern African deserts are biologically the most diverse. In spite of their apparently lifeless appearance, they support an astonishing diversity of animals and plants that have evolved unique ways of surviving in an almost waterless environment. Deserts and semi-deserts are fragile ecosystems. Several national, provincial and private nature and game reserves have been established in the different desert regions, and serve as gateways to the beauty and diversity found in desert places.
A visit may be the beginning of a great addiction, since sand in your shoes has a way of making you want to return again and again. This book will give you a similar pleasure, because in it you will see the deserts through the keen perceptions and the camera lens of those who have themselves fallen under the spell of these fascinating and lonely places.
HPH Publishing 2005
ISBN: 0620343435
Condition: As New
BD
BEAUTIFUL DESERTS brings you an outstanding display of some of the most remarkable landscapes and creatures in the world. The photographs reveal the captivating and artistic style of the Van den Berg photographers. They depict the different facets of desert regions in a new and dramatic way, with large, bold images. The book has a strikingly minimalistic design and the large format follows the ‘Big Picture’ theme first introduced with the book GREATER KRUGER - The Big Picture (2004). The concise yet informative text is by the well-known authors Gordon and Cherie Maclean.
More than half of South Africa falls within a desert region, as do the larger parts of Botswana and almost the whole of Namibia. The entire region is about 1.6 million square kilometres in extent — an area larger than the combined land surfaces of France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Of all the world’s arid regions, the southern African deserts are biologically the most diverse. In spite of their apparently lifeless appearance, they support an astonishing diversity of animals and plants that have evolved unique ways of surviving in an almost waterless environment. Deserts and semi-deserts are fragile ecosystems. Several national, provincial and private nature and game reserves have been established in the different desert regions, and serve as gateways to the beauty and diversity found in desert places.
A visit may be the beginning of a great addiction, since sand in your shoes has a way of making you want to return again and again. This book will give you a similar pleasure, because in it you will see the deserts through the keen perceptions and the camera lens of those who have themselves fallen under the spell of these fascinating and lonely places.
HPH Publishing 2005
ISBN: 0620343435
Condition: As New
BD