New book on Etosha National Park

THE Etosha National Park is 100 years old this year and a new coffee-table book on the park is now available in local bookshops.

Published by Venture Publications, the book depicts glossy photographs of Etosha on 170 pages and individual chapters deal with the history of Etosha, early nature conservation efforts and park management to this day. The Hai//om, a San tribe who had lived there for hundreds of years until kicked out by apartheid South African authorities in 1954, also receive well-deserved recognition in this book.Readers learn more about the fauna and flora of Etosha, its sensitive ecology and the uniqueness of its vast open spaces, caused by the enormous flat pan which gave the park its name.Well-known personalities in environmental circles, like Dr Hu Berry and his wife Conny, Conrad Brain and Amy Schoeman, are authors of the different chapters in the book.Reinhard Friederich, an authority on the San, who speaks Hai//om fluently, and German anthropologist Ute Dieckmann wrote the chapters on the Hai//om.Stunning photos by Paul van Schalkwyk, Mike Griffin, Hans Rack, Pompie and Helga Burger make this new book on Etosha an interesting addition to any nature lover’s library.The recommended price is around N$300 for the soft-cover edition.An exclusive limited edition of 500 leather-bound hardcover copies is also available for around N$500.The publishers also produced a 40-minute DVD on Etosha.The Hai//om, a San tribe who had lived there for hundreds of years until kicked out by apartheid South African authorities in 1954, also receive well-deserved recognition in this book.Readers learn more about the fauna and flora of Etosha, its sensitive ecology and the uniqueness of its vast open spaces, caused by the enormous flat pan which gave the park its name.Well-known personalities in environmental circles, like Dr Hu Berry and his wife Conny, Conrad Brain and Amy Schoeman, are authors of the different chapters in the book.Reinhard Friederich, an authority on the San, who speaks Hai//om fluently, and German anthropologist Ute Dieckmann wrote the chapters on the Hai//om.Stunning photos by Paul van Schalkwyk, Mike Griffin, Hans Rack, Pompie and Helga Burger make this new book on Etosha an interesting addition to any nature lover’s library.The recommended price is around N$300 for the soft-cover edition.An exclusive limited edition of 500 leather-bound hardcover copies is also available for around N$500.The publishers also produced a 40-minute DVD on Etosha.