Wildlife

Publisher: Gerald Hoberman
Cape Town, 1998
Cloth binding, 32x25 cm, 176 pages, throughout colour photos

Publisher’s announcement:

In a stunning visual portrait of wildlife on six continents, Gerald Hoberman has travelled thousands of miles to some of the remotest wilderness regions on earth to capture the magnificence of the natural world. He has crossed the vast African plains to record the wonder of its bounteous wildlife, from the fearsome lion, whose blood-curdling roar is one of the continent's most evocative sounds, to the black rhinoceros, a species close to extinction. In India, he has come face to face with the mighty tiger, the most royal of all cats. He has looked into the eyes of polar bears, Arctic behemoths whom the Inuit call Naanteq, the one without shadow.

He has journeyed with Cofan Indians to the heart of the Amazon jungle, providing a rare glimpse of the extraordinary animals that inhabit South America's luxuriant rain forests. But Wildlife is also a book about landscapes, a play of light and colour, captured with great joy and consummate skill. His photographs reflect the magic of the aurora borealis darting across the Arctic night sky; the brooding beauty of Antarctica, a frozen continent surrounded by tempestuous seas; and the tranquillity of the Galapagos Islands, the only place on earth where pinnipeds are found on the equator.

With this collection of breathtaking photographs and accompanying adventure stories, Gerald Hoberman pays homage to the truly wild, while simultaneously reminding us all of our custodianship of the Earth and the urgency to preserve its creatures.