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Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning
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Award-winning author-photographer Boyd Norton draws upon his extensive experiences and photographs of the Serengeti ecosystem, including the Serengeti National Park, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Ngorongoro Crater. Using thrilling firsthand accounts and experiences, the book captures the history, people, animals, and the great migration that makes this one of the most fascinatin ...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
October 1st 2011
by Fulcrum Publishing
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Boyd Norton’s newest book is full of gorgeous photographs that take the reader on a stunning journey through the Serengeti ecosystem. This book absolutely overflows with captivating images that place the reader directly on the plains to witness Africa’s stunning displays of nature.
Serengeti isn’t only photos, if you can tear your eyes away from them there is a great deal of text that accompanies them. It is full of stories of Norton’s visits, anecdotes about the wildlife and history and facts ab ...more
Serengeti isn’t only photos, if you can tear your eyes away from them there is a great deal of text that accompanies them. It is full of stories of Norton’s visits, anecdotes about the wildlife and history and facts ab ...more
Filled with glorious pictures of magnified Serengeti sunsets and multicolored pastel plains teeming with animals, at first glance this book may seem like the type of picture book one skims through quickly in 15 minutes of awe-inspiring and world-changing photographs of the true wilderness of Africa, before it's placed back on the shelf. Of course, the pictures in the book heighten the experience of delving into the mysteries of the African savannah, from the modern woes of the Big Five (leopard,
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A splendid pictorial introduction to one of the most iconic wild places on Earth, as well as personal memoir of the author/photographer's years spent roaming the endless plains, kopjes and the adjacent Ngorongoro crater. The writing manages to do justice to the beautiful photos of the animals and landscapes, making this coffee table book eminently readable and not just flipping through for the pictures! The book contains a surprisingly large amount of information on the ecology and history of co
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Beautiful photo book that prepared us for our own journey to the Serengeti.
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Boyd Norton has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Sierra Club’s prestigious Ansel Adams Award. This award honors an individual who has made superlative use of still photography to further conservation causes over a lifetime.
Norton is the photographer and author of 17 books, ranging in topics from African elephants to mountain gorillas, and from Siberia’s Lake Baikal to the Serengeti ecos ...more
Norton is the photographer and author of 17 books, ranging in topics from African elephants to mountain gorillas, and from Siberia’s Lake Baikal to the Serengeti ecos ...more
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“There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.”
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“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”
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