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Dear [fname],
Alexander McCall Smith is at it again with another story
from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.
Thomas P. Peshak has produced another visual feast with
"Lost World" and a Douglas Hey classic is discovered.
For those who are handy and want to attract wildlife to
their gardens we have 'Woodworking for Wildlife" and for
the armchair adventurer, "Huckleberry Days".
Best regards, Craig Thom
The latest
Birding and
Fly Fishing books
Double
Comfort Safari Club Alexander McCall Smith
R325.00
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's
Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest.
The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her
homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and
sparkling water.
However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and
disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more, Mma Makutsi still does not have a
date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and is feeling rather tetchy
herself. But Precious knows that with a little patience, just as the wide
river will gently make its way round any obstacle, so will everything work
out for the best in the end ...Hardcover, 256 pages, 2010
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Miracle at Speedy Motors Alexander McCall Smith
R139.00
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Woodworking
for Wildlife Carrol L. Henderson
R199.00
Homes for Birds and Animals For everyone who enjoys attracting wildlife to
their backyard, farm, or country home, this is the perfect resource. With
all the latest information on how to attract all kinds of birds, the book
features thirty designs for nest boxes and nest platforms that will
accommodate forty-six species of wildlife. While this book is based on
American species, it has relevance anywhere in the world.
It provides easy-to-follow diagrams for cutting out and assembling the nest
boxes, accompanied by over three hundred beautiful colour photographs.
Carrol L. Henderson has dramatically improved and expanded the book with the
best techniques for building, placing, and managing nest boxes. He provides
new information on how to eliminate predation on nest boxes, as well as how
to reduce competition from exotic species.
The book also includes new designs, making it a great reference for backyard
wildlife enthusiasts, conservationists, youth group leaders, teachers,
woodworking instructors, and parents and grandparents who are looking for
outdoor projects to do with children. Paperback: 164 pages 3rd Revised
Edition March 2010
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Huckleberry
Days Garrett Evans
R149.00
A Trouting, Shooting and Fishing Life Describes Garrett
Evans's accounts of his favourite places, books and authors,
and his charming portraits of his relationships, and the
fishermen, hunters, writers and scholars he has known.
Garrett is more than an angler and hunter, he is a poet and
philosopher aware not only of the beauty of the scenes he
describes but of their transience.
South African readers will enjoy this book as the
writing covers experiences in the United States (where
Garrett was born), the United Kingdom, Europe and New
Zealand, as well as South Africa, in all of which countries
he has spent many Huckleberry days. These short pieces each
hold attention with their concentrated, story-telling
moments, and their charm lingers. An ideal bedside book, and
will make a fine gift for anyone with a taste both for the
outdoors and good writing. A5 Paperback, 152 pages, March
2010
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Game
Parks of South Africa * Gerald Hinde
R115.00
This light-weight, souvenir-sized book about the Game Parks of South Africa
gives a round-up of the country's diverse and often world-famous parks and
reserves.
An excellent, affordable memento for tourists - particularly those attending
the 2010 'World Cup' - as well as for locals visiting game parks around the
country, this book captures the best-known features of our spectacular
reserves. With short, punchy text and captions, and superb images, it
details their key features, their unspoilt beauty and abundant wildlife, and
makes a colourful keepsake to pack for home.
# Small and lightweight enough to pack # Packed with world-class
photography and interesting facts # Showcases South Africa's unique wildlife
Softcover April 2010
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Wildlife
of Southern Africa Carol Polich
R115.00
As a showcase of southern Africa's natural heritage, Wildlife of Southern
Africa is the perfect memento for World Cup visitors and other tourists.
With its full-colour photographs, handy size and affordable price, it's an
easy-to-pack round-up of the region's enviable wildlife assets.
It offers a photographic journey that transports readers to the centre of
the action: where lions roar and vultures lurk; where troops of baboons riot
and lone leopards hunt. The book gives a rare glimpse into the lives of wild
animals, revealing their daily struggle for survival, their unbridled energy
and the intricacies of family interaction.
More than 90 full-colour photographs of southern African wildlife in its
natural habitat. Interesting facts about animals, from elephants to
steenbok, from buzzards to snakes. Softcover April 2010
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Lost
World: The Marine Realm of Aldabra & the Seychelles Thomas
P. Peschak
R375.00
A visual journey into the aquatic world of this remote
archipelago. It is a celebration of the underwater world and
the spectacular marine wildlife of this forgotten and often
overlooked corner of the world. Shrimp-gulping whale sharks,
sponge-devouring hawksbill turtles, flocks of pirating
seabirds, armies of land crabs and schools of wily reef
sharks they all find a place in its pages. Hardcover:
176 pages 2010
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Animals
of the Greater Kruger Field Guide Christo Joubert, Ulrich
Oberprieler,Burger Cillié
R179.00
This A5-sized photographic guide features:
* 68 mammal species * 215 bird species * 25 reptiles and amphibians
* Complete mammal and bird checklists * Excellent colour photographs,
depicting males and females or other colour forms * A layout that is easy to
use * Succinct text to facilitate identification
* Symbols depicting basic information on each species * English, Afrikaans
and scientific names * A map of the Greater Kruger Park * A must for any
visitor to the Kruger National Park and surrounding areas!
Softcover, 132pgs, 210x148mm 2009
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Stock discovered! A box of this SA classic
was found recently, this is a must for the SA book collector as there are
not a lot of these around.
Water
and Wildlife - Douglas Hey
R199.00
Douglas Hey spent a professional lifetime in the study of nature and in the
battle for it's conservation. He was brought up in a small village near King
Williams' Town in the eastern Cape, and some of his earliest memories relate
to the South African natural environment and wildlife that, still at a young
age, he grew to love and appreciate. This book tell the fascinating story of
the origins and growths of nature conservation in southern Africa and the
personalities involved in the moment. Dr Hey's account, which spans over
half a century, is a valuable historical record of the flora and fauna of
this vast land, with particular emphasis on the aquatic environment.
Softcover, 155x230mm 1999 Revised Edition
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Pesticide
Impact on Stream Fauna RC Muirhead-Thompson
R400.00
With Special Reference to MacroinvertebratesThe problem of pesticide
contamination of running waters is one of concern in many different fields
of human activity. A critical experimental approach is essential in trying
to understand how individual stream fauna react and how integrated aquatic
communities respond to these toxic chemicals, both over short periods and in
the long term. This book deals with three aspects of pesticide
contamination.
First the origins of the pollutants are considered. Secondly, there follows
a consideration of laboratory evaluation techniques, and thirdly, the final
section of the book looks in detail at a selection of case studies in which
the effects on streams of widely used pesticides are analysed. The account
will be of value to freshwater biologists generally but especially to those
directly involved in work with pesticides, freshwater fisheries and public
health.
Softcover 275 pages, 50 diags 2009 reprint (Print on Demand Item)
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Now available
Remarkable Creatures Sean B.
Carroll
R169.00
In 1809, when Darwin was born,
much of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our knowledge of the past
was nonexistent, and our picture of our species' history little more than a
set of fantastic myths and fairytales. But a new era was dawning. Five
decades later, On the Origin of the Species was able to draw on the
pioneering work of explorers and naturalists to produce a theory that
revolutionized our conception of our world. And the revolution didn't stop
with the publication of Darwin's masterwork.
150 years later, his 'dangerous idea' is still headline news, denied by
many, capable of enraging and dividing, even as biologists decipher the
3-billion-year history of life as written in our very DNA. This book tells
the stories of the most dramatic adventures and important discoveries in two
centuries of natural history - from Alexander von Humboldt's epic journeys
in South America to the hi-tech genome-reading projects making headlines
today - and how they gave birth to and have nourished the evolution
revolution. Softcover,
288pgs, 196x128mm 2009
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CD, Sounds of Zambian Wildlife R
Sternstedt
R499.00
A collection of high quality MP3 sounds featuring 20 mammal species, 32 frog
species and 574 bird species from Zambia.
Includes detailed species lists (English, French and scientific names), with
the associated filename, in PDF, HTML and text formats.
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What We See: Reconsidering an
Anthropomentrical Collection from Southern African: Images, Voices, and
Versioning
Anette Hoffmann
R199.00
"I did not hear anything, my
eyes were blocked, and what was being played I..., but I could not breathe
with my mouth, ears were blocked, ears were sore, sore, sore, sore, that is
how it was and I sweated wet, wet, wet from my sweat, and when it was lifted
from my face, I was able to get my breath back".
Petrus Goliath spoke these words into a phonograph just after he had gone
through the painful and offensive experience of casting, measuring and
photographing in the Witpütz policestation in southern Namibia. The German
artist Hans Lichtenecker created this bizarre archive of racial types in
1931. Soon afterwards, the casts of faces and body parts, voice recordings
on wax cylinders, anthropometrical photographs and other physical
representations were exhibited at the colonial exhibition in Köln, Germany
(1934) and, again, in the 1980s in the Namibian capital of Windhoek.
Today, the ghostly voices, concealed on the fragile medium of wax cylinders,
can be heard again. They transmit a stern critique of the anthropometric
project and provide assessments of the colonial condition and the
circumstances, often under duress, in which the men and women experienced
the theatrical terror of scientific documentation.
This book, which accompanies the exhibition What We See engages with the
anthropometrical archive and its canned voices theoretically, visually and
artistically. Its essays reconsider anthropometric collections and their
representational claims through bones, skeletons, casts, masks and
photography. They reflect on voices and voice archives and, importantly,
provide transcriptions of many of the recorded texts.
Softcover, 234pgs, 205x200mm 2009
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Dangerous Marine Animals Matthias Bergbauer, Manuela Kirschner
R515.00
This guide to the marine
environment covers all forms of sea-life. It describes colenterates,
molluscs, crustacea, urochordates, fish, reptiles, seabirds, cetaceans and
sea mammals. The book opens with a section on oceanography and marine
biology which explains the complex and fascinating processes that created
the oceans as we know them today.
Part I covers the invertebrates. As they are a diverse group, typical
regional invertebrate habitats are described which give an insight into the
complex niches and relationships that exist. Part II covers the vertebrates.
It opens with 48 plates illustrating the majority of species likely to be
encountered on the oceans. In the fish plates, some species are illustrated
for the first time. The seabirds, cetaceans, sea reptiles and sea mammals
are also comprehensively illustrated. The plate section is followed by a
systematic section on each group. The book should prove useful to the
seafarer, and provide information to anyone interested in the marine
environment. Softcover, 384pgs,
210x148mm Dec'2009
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