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Birds of Africa South of the Sahara (Princeton Field Guides)
Ian Sinclair , and
Peter Ryan
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This compact and easy-to-use guide is the first book to describe and illustrate all of the birds found in sub-Saharan Africa. Detailing more than 2,100 species, it covers the entire Afrotropic Region, including Socotra, Pemba, and the islands in the Gulf of Guinea.
Stunning color illustrations depict most distinctive plumages as well as diagnostic flight patterns and major geographic variants. Range maps are provided for each species, and the well-formatted text highlights precise identification features and differences between similar species as well as providing concise information on habitat, status, and calls. All information is completely up-to-date, incorporating the latest taxonomy (including descriptions of many new species never before illustrated) and the most recent atlas surveys.
Offering unrivalled coverage of African birds in a single volume, this book will tempt many more birders to one of the world's richest faunas.
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A (pretty) good book.......2007-02-16
I used it in Cameroon last year and in Niger this year. Although it suffers some weaknesses, like some breeding/non-breeding plumage difference not documented, and like some upper-parts of raptors not shown, this is definitely one of the books any birdwatcher must have in his pocket in the West Africa bush, and I would not leave without it, although it is a little worn out now. The Borrow & Demey is a good complement.
A Wonderful Reference.......2007-01-06
We purchased this book upon our return from a safari in Kenya and Tanzania because our guides used it. We used it to identify birds in the 650 best of our photos, and found it to be quite complete and reliable. It's a winner.
Comprehensive & Well-organized.......2004-06-12
This book has taken on a monumental task by introducing the entire bird fauna of a huge region in one volume.
I was sceptical before seeing it, thinking that quantity would probably take priority over quality. It did not!
For a start, it is surprisingly detailed and well-organized. The editors have resisted the usual temptetion of cramming too many similar or small species on one page. Usually there are just 5-6 species on each page, sometimes 7 or just 3-4.
What this means is that illustrations are big enough to show detail, plus there are often 4 or more different illustrations for the same 1 species, showing different colour morphs, juveniles, females, birds in flight, head or wing details, etc.
It also means that the maps and text for each species could be placed on the page facing its picture.
The text itself is still amazingly detailed for a book of this scope, giving the essential information on distribution, appearence, habitat, status and voice.
Too good to be true? Well, some of the illustrations show important colour or pattern details wrongly, even contradicting description in the text - in these cases the text tends be more accurate, so have a look at that one, too!
But all in all, this book is a great value introduction to the bird fauna of Africa, though perhaps unsurprisingly, I found it a bit too bulky to carry on the field.
A great ornithological overview.......2004-02-09
This is the first field guide type book that enables birdwatchers to get an overview of what mainland Africa has to offer as far as birds are concerned. The only area that is not covered by this book is North Africa. Most of that is included in every major field guide for Europe. So in the end, just a few species of northern Sudan escape coverage in this way. Compared with other books that claim to be field guides, this one is still relatively compact. Certainly so, when one takes into account the incredibly rich avifauna. A total of more than 2100 species are covered.
The color plates, as a whole, are excellent. As they were drawn by a number of artists, the general impression of "unity" is missing to some extent. But that is a problem of most modern field guides, as it would take too long - in an impatient market - for one artist to come up with a full set of good plates. The original South-African publisher Struik had the possibility to use many pictures from other field guides they publish. This may have been the only way to make such a monumental task feasible at all.
The texts and range maps are opposite the plates. This practical - and customary - arrangement necessitates rather short texts. However, they are very informative, providing the essentials for a field guide like field identification, habitat, abundance, and voice. The range maps do not show seasonal changes, but the texts compensate to some degree with brief hints.
For some areas of Africa, this is the first field guide available, whereas one would probably take recourse to the more compact regional books where they are available. At any rate, the publishers are to be congratulated to this most valuable and well organized book.
for Spotting only, not for info about a bird.......2004-02-07
This is a survey, with a summary for each bird that is useful for bird-spotting. But it does not include details such as the life-cycle or habitat of the bird. Maybe it assumes you have other books for this. It covers such an enormous area and number of birds that these details had to be omitted.
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In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of dunes and gravel plains, and at certain times waterfalls cascade from their peaks. Even the sand amazes: massive dunes can appear almost overnight, and be gone just as quickly. We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth—yet it is full of surprises, as Marq de Villiers reveals in his brilliant and evocative biography of the land and its people.
“If you traveled across the United States from Boston to San Diego, you still wouldn’t have crossed the Sahara,” writes de Villiers, painting a vivid picture of this most extraordinary place. He charts the course of Atlantic hurricanes, many of which are born in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad, and offers a fascinating disquisition on the physics of windblown sand and the formation of dunes. He chronicles the formation of the massive aquifers that lie beneath the desert, some filled with water that pre-dates the appearance of modern man on Earth. He marvels at the jagged mountains and at ancient cave paintings deep in the desert, which reveal that the Sahara was a verdant grassland 10,000 years ago—a cycle that has been repeated several times.
Woven through de Villiers’s story is a chronicle of the desert’s nations and people: the Berbers and Arabs of the north; its black African south, whose ancestors peopled the greatest empires of Old Africa; and the extraordinary nomads—the Moors, the Tuareg (the famous “blue men”), and the Tubu—who call the desert home today. Illuminated by the eloquent written testimonies of past travelers, Sahara is a glittering geographic tour conveying the majesty, mystery, and abundance of life in what the outside world thinks of as the Great Emptiness.
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Great overview of a fascinating land and its peoples .......2005-06-12
_Sahara_ by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle is an interesting and thorough book on the natural and human history of the Sahara. Very informative and comprehensive in scope, the authors tackled a variety of subjects relating to a land known also as the Endless Emptiness or the Great Nothingness.
The Sahara is vast, stretching from the "dried-blood-red cliffs" of Mauritania on the Atlantic coast to the "bleached bone" of Egypt's Eastern Desert on the Red Sea, from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to the Sahel in the south, a desert that covers 3,320,000 square miles. The Sahara one learns is not one vast sand sea (only about 15% is sand covered), though the dune fields (called ergs) can stretch for hundreds of miles. The desert also contains a nearly invisible network of watercourses, wadis, and riverbeds, as "faint and elusive as Martian canals" when seen in satellite photos, some that haven't born water on the surface for thousands of years; salt flats; dried lake beds; immense, grim gravel plains, utterly without feature; and massive mountain ranges, often the refuge of nomad groups, not unlike islands in the sea that is the Sahara.
The authors point to the ample evidence that the Sahara was not always desert, notably the stands of petrified wood in Algeria, Niger, and Chad and the curious calcified reeds that once grew around now extinct lakes, odd glasslike structures that mark long vanished shorelines. In actuality the region in the last several tens of thousands of years has alternated between desert and moister climes, changing back and forth due to the complex mechanics of global climate and changes in the Earth's orbit. The writers discussed the waxing and waning of the desert (apparently some areas were always arid) over the millennia as well as debates about whether or not the desert is expanding south.
Sand itself is well covered in this book, the authors providing vivid examples of ruins, buildings, and entire towns lost to migrating dunes. The origins of Saharan sand, the physics of dune formation, the various types of dunes, and how one travels through these areas are all discussed.
The chapter on Saharan weather was especially interesting. The most powerful wind is the harmattan, known as the sirocco in Algeria, called by some Tuareg and Tubu clans the shahali or shai-halad or mother of storms, a wind so powerful it has been known to send powdery fine sand up to 500 miles distant, as far as England and northern Germany. In the desert its effects can be quite devastating; ninety-plus mile an hour winds, huge electrical disturbances, drops in humidity to 10 percent, and of course massive, frightening sandstorms.
Saharan wind systems are so strong that their effects are global; fully grown grasshoppers have been deposited in Antigua. Between 60 million and a billion tons of iron-rich sand blows across the ocean each year, in some cases beneficial (important for the nourishment of upper canopy orchids in the Amazon) but more often troublesome (it has been linked to the declining health of coral in the Caribbean and creating huge blooms of toxic red tide in Florida waters).
As dry as the Sahara is, water still exists. In addition to the mighty Nile and the Niger, massive deposits of "fossil water," laid down when the region was moister, would rival the American Great Lakes if they were on the surface. Yields from wells in some areas can be quite high - up to 25,000 cubic feet of water per hour - but there is considerable debate over whether this is a renewable resource or not. Some believe that these ancient aquifers are being renewed more frequently and at a greater volume than previously estimated, a theory that is discussed.
As noted mountains exist; the enormous Ahaggar Mountains cover an area as big as France, while the spectacular Air mountains cover an area the size of Switzerland. The mountains are fascinating regions, home to intricately carved rock, secretive mountain people, and in the Tibesti Mountains, still active volcanoes.
There is an overview of some of the animals of this harsh realm. Some of the more spectacular have vanished thanks to man - elephants were found near Timbuktu as late as 1787, but were since hunted out, while ostriches vanished from Algeria early in the 20th century and hartebeests from Morocco in World War II. Ostriches - and leopards - still survive in some areas, as well as dwarf crocodiles in remote oases, the striped hyena, huge tortoises in the Sudan, monitor lizards, jerboas, fennec foxes, caracals, sand vipers, addax (the desert's largest mammal), and scorpions (much more hazardous and common than any desert snake).
Early history of man in the Sahara is covered, including the famous rock art. Also, the rise and fall of the various empires of the region are discussed, including the Garamantes, Mali, and Songhai. I will have to say this was probably the driest part of the book, as some of the intrigue and various dynasties got a bit confusing at times.
There is excellent coverage of the various nomadic groups present today; the Bedouin, the Moors, the Tubu, the Chaamba, the Berbers, and in particular the fascinating Tuareg.
The final parts of the book look at Saharan commerce and travel, examining the routes taken by caravans, the nature of caravans themselves, and the chief commodities that are bought and sold. Also great information on the all-important camel, an animal that arguably without which there would have been no Saharan civilization. The long vital salt and gold trades are well examined (the salt trade is particularly interesting), but regrettably the most profitable element of Saharan commerce was the slave trade. Until well into the 19th century half the value of Saharan traffic was in slaves. Even more unfortunately, slavery still exists; in many areas slaves weren't officially freed until the late 1960s, though unofficially they are still kept. Slavery was outlawed in Mauritania in 1980 but upwards of one hundred thousand are still slaves.
Moist and Refreshing .......2005-04-27
"Sahara" describes an area as large as the United States -- the people, the culture, history and the natural environment -- in little more than 300 pages. That could be as dull as a textbook, but the authors enliven "Sahara" with folklore tales, personal travel ancedotes, and fascinating little facts. The desert is "as rich in story, as the Tuareg say, as a (...) is of milk."
"Sahara" is divided into two parts. The first deals with "the place itself" and the second with "the people." The most interesting chapter is, of course, the one dealing with water -- the constant preoccupation of anyone who travels in the Sahara. And one of the fascinating little facts in this chapter is a story about the blind, edible fish that live in some wells in the desert. A fish dinner in the Sahara! That's worthy of Ripley's "Believe it or Not." Other ancedotes tell about the crocodiles that inhabited the one running stream of the deep Sahara and an actual waterfall in the Air Massif.
The Sahara is one of the most austere environments on earth and the most accomplished of the Sahara-dwellers are the romantic, blue-robed nomadic Tuareg who penetrate the deep desert in search of grazing for their animals, salt, and loot. Tuareg lore is a large and interesting part of the book. How they make their way unerringly across the constantly-changing dune fields and featureless rocky flats of the desert and find a single well in an infinity of wasteland remains, however, a mystery to the authors and the readers.
The few black and white photos in the book are too small to be of much consequence and maps are similarly small and unsatisfying, but the text is colorful and the story is fascinating. "Sahara" rises above the level of the travelogue to become a natural history of the Sahara. If you like to read about lonely places and the few people who inhabit them, this is an excellent book.
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The best, most sweeping account of the Sahara.......2003-12-05
This masterful account of the Sahara is hard to surpass. Few books detail the Sahara and when they do they usually take the form of either purely scientific accounts or purely historical accounts. This book is one part history, one part geography, one part travel journal and one part science. The authors detail separate sections on the history of the Sahara, the peoples of the Sahara, the winds, the water, the geography and the wildlife. A special chapter covers the lifestyle of the Taureg tribesman. Special mention is made of the Islamic slave trade and the salt trade. Maps cover the many tribal groups, the amazing geography made up of Massifs and a map dedicated to the underground aquifers. Many wonderful photographs detail everything from a desert Hilton to the beautiful sand dunes to the people and wildlife of the Sahara. The Sahara is as large as the United States and includes a vast array of cultures and landscapes including the Qattara depression, and has over 2 million inhabitants. A must read for anyone interested in Africa, geography or extreme places.
Wannabe 19th century travel book.......2003-06-25
The book starts out with several surprising historical errors in the first 20 or so pages, making you suspect of the remainder. The authors attribute America's early response to North African brigandry to the wrong President and the wrong year, then ascribe the "most perfect architectural monuments (of Moorish Spain)" to the Almohads and Almoravids (p. 13), fanatic fundamentalist Islamic movements that were in fact central to the decline of the great society that built these places. They move on to delicately describe the tyrant and terror monger Muammar Qadafi of Libya as, "mercurial...whatever his politics and his quirks and his erratic ambitions". How nice. Perhaps a book on the 'mercurial' Qadafi is in the works by authors de Villiers & Hirtle? In any event, the narratives are indeed vivid but they attempt to re-create the mood of 19th century travel guides with minimalist maps and black and white photos. These photos, without anything to measure the scale of the places they describe and often from archival sources, do these unique and remote places few of us will ever lay eyes upon a great injustice. All the more unfortunate because the topic is quite fascinating.
Extremely informative.......2003-05-20
Knowing very little of the history of the area of Africa now covered by the vast Sahara desert I found this an extremely fascinating journey as a novice on an area of the planet vaster than the US. Commencing with a brief glance to see if it was worth progressing I found the authors opening with a geographical account of the history of the Sahara, moving rapidly from West to East, spending time on the littoral, touching on the major empires that influenced it over the past two thousand years. Despite the fact that even this novice spotted the glaring error of George Washington's posthumous invasion it proved sufficiently interesting after a first skim through to sit down and read it avidly.
The book moved on in Part One to discuss some of the sources of Saharan history and geography, heavily referencing Leo Africanus and Ibn Battuta as it attempts to give a geographical definition to the vast desert. It was interesting to find the desert is only 15percent sand. There are reflections on the ever-changing nature of the sands giving examples where it has swallowed towns whole (there is an interesting anecdote on the Arawan Hilton) and latest theories on the epochal history of the Sahara and its current movement. We hear stories of legendary armies swallowed by the sands (Cambyses being prominent) learn of the Grand Dune over 400 feet high and thirty miles long, discover that dunes come in all sizes and types, of their dancing movement (saltation and impact creep). We meet some Sahara travellers, namely, A'Yoba and come across bones whom the sands have claimed. Moving through the border of Cameroon to Chad the winds follow and we learn of the terrible hamrattan north-west wind, then the great aquifers and how under the desert satellite imaging reveals ancient riverbeds. We hear that Lake Chad is the Sahara's largest lake yet it is shrinking fast. We are taught the rainfall cycles and of rivers such as the Nile, the Niger, the Idrisi (the only perennial being the Iherir in Algeria) and oases such as Timia. As the book progresses the Massifs of Central Sahrara come into play and how life itself has survived in the Sahara from humans to plants, to the sad end of the `Arbre de Tenere.' to the animals that roam.
Part Two dealt with the people who lived in the Sahara, from the first neolithic hunter-gathers to the first culture of the Aterians through to Pharanoic Eygpt. We are shown rock art, the stirrings of language, and how adversity shaped the population centres as the deserts came. Details on the ancient Saharan Empires: Eygpt, Mali, Tekrur, Old Ghana, Almohad, Almoravid, Hausa, Kanem-Bornu, Songhai and Garamantes are given and explored, their key known histories related. We move on through the various invasions of the Romans, Alexander, Arabian, Phoenician, Vandals, Byzantines and many more. From this the authors touch on more recent political wars, the Fulani theocracies, before narrowing down onto routes, mainly created trade routes for trading salt, gold and slavery. From here we focus on the nomadic peoples of the Sahara, notably the Tuareg.. We hear of the resourceful Tubu who can live for three days on a single date and are taken to the wedding feast of the Tuareg, Ahmed before setting off with a camel caravan across the Erg de Tenere. Stories of the great 52-day crossings from Morocco to Timbuktu, of the Air-Bilma-Zinder triangle abound and on the trip we see the infamous mirages caused by dehydration. We end with the centuries old question of how these peoples who have resided here for so long are able to navigate across the empty expanses and touch, at the last, on how the modern world has begun its intrusion.
As this is the first book on the Sahara I have read I cannot comment too much on its historical and geographical validity. However, the narrative skips from geography to sociology, from north to south, from past to future like the shifting sands themselves. The sheer scale of information packed into the pages is impressive. There is a sense of being with a narrator, but the narrator never intrudes. It is more a set of paragraphs, loosely collected under each chapter, but presented in a factual or anecdotal manner that makes for easy and cetainly interesting reading.
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Great Book.......2007-09-24
Explorers Wanted: I got this book for our homeschool my son age 12 loved it and couldn't put it down.
A Fun Learning Experience!.......2006-02-09
Are you ready for one exciting read that is packed full of learning experiences? If you are this book is for you. Inside you can open up your imagination and take a journey into the desert with our author Simon Chapman. You will prepare for your trip, being told all that you will need and what you may expect to find once there.
As you travel you will learn about the dangers of the desert, such as heatstroke and scorpions, to name just a few, and what to do about them. You will meet desert people and learn how they survive such a hostile area and you'll do all this in a great entertaining way.
This is a wonderful book, taking children on a learning adventure without them having to leave their chair. Descriptions are vivid, illustrations are great and the facts are given in a fun interesting way. I recommend this for you and your children. A great learning experience. Very well done.
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The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains
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Release Date: 2003-02-25 |
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1860 edition by John Murray, London.
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The Sahara : Vision Books Series
Peter Murray
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Taming the Sahara: Tunisia Shows a Way While Others Falter
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Veteran North African observer Andrew Borowiec surveys the history of the countries surrounding the Sahara, showing that Tunisia is the only country actively resisting the encroachment. Using onsite visits, interviews, and an examination of government records and newspaper accounts, he examines how Tunisians are pursuing a bold approach to the problem. He shows how Tunisia--a small, poor, but ambitious country--is "taming" the world's largest desert by erecting barriers against sandstorms, controlling urbanization, experimenting with farming, settling nomads, and successfully exploiting the desert as a major tourist attraction. Their efforts illustrate that there are ways to fight a major ecological disaster that demands serious attention across the globe. To many, Sahara is a magic word--"a sea of sand." The desert has always fascinated explorers, geographers, environmentalists, and novelists, who turned to it for inspiration and adventure. Yet the Sahara poses an increasing challenge to humanity. Lakes that once dotted parts of the desert are drying up, such as Lake Chad, the continent's fourth largest lake, which has shrunk by 92 percent. As oases and grazing areas are abandoned, the region's population loses its livelihood and chances for survival, resulting in social and political upheaval. The Sahara's encroachment is a disaster for large portions of Africa, but it is also affecting Europe and perhaps the world in general. Windblown Saharan sand reaches Rome, Athens, Spain, France, and Turkey, and the resultant climatic and agricultural changes are only beginning to be studied--and feared.
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Ancient lakes of the Sahara: the Sahara was once a savannah teeming with life. The story of how the climate changed, and how humans coped, is still being ... : An article from: American Scientist
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