African Odyssey: 365 Days

African Odyssey: 365 Days
by Anup Shah, Manoj Shah

African Odyssey: 365 Days
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Author: Anup Shah, Manoj Shah
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN: 0810993961
Number of pages: 744
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

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Book Review: Up close and personal - images and text
Summary: 5 Stars

African Odyssey is an account of the Great Migration across the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem - a mosaic of habitats that support a remarkable variety of species - and so too does this book.

Anup Shah says that the text is written as `part nature guide, part travelogue recording' events as he (and his brother Manoj) observed them in the course of a year. So by all means a personal account - and the camera angles certainly make it feel up close and personal. Images captured by remote triggers make the reader feel as they are one of the million of wildebeest crossing the plains in the chaos of legs, dust and motion.

Highlights would be images of a cheetah mother carrying her tiny cub to a new den site in a mouth that is usually seen wrapped around a gazelle's throat. Also the graphic scenes of a hyena killing a helpless fawn, a formidable predator in action - followed by images of the tender love that exists between adult and pup for hyenas are devoted parents too. This book seems intent to show both sides of the circle of life.

What is so unique is that the Shah brothers seem to be part of the ecosystem themselves. One minute up in the air like the birds looking down on the landscape; then lying flat on the ground to get a close up of a tiny frog; then amongst a cheetah den to capture rare intimate family behaviour and then holding back to witness the terrifying encounter between a hippo and a pride of hungry lions. The animals don't seem to notice them but these two brothers miss nothing on the plains.

If you've been to Africa this book will evoke strong memories; if you haven't then this is the next best thing. The fact that it's a coffee table book gone smaller means you can hold it close up and look at every detail - just as the two brothers went to Africa and did themselves.

Summary of African Odyssey: 365 Days

Every year, spurred on by the dry season on the African plains in Kenya and Tanzania, close to two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles make the epic journey from their breeding grounds in the southern Serengeti to greener, wetter grass on the northern plains during what is known as the Great Migration.

As the dry season turns to wet, they travel full circle back south. Year after year, governed by the seasons as they evolve from wet to dry and back again, this cycle repeats itself. Great travelers that they are, these migrants encounter dangerous predators and the kaleidoscope of wildlife on the African savannah along the way, from lions and leopards to elephants, dik-diks, and dung beetles.

African Odyssey: 365 Days follows the movements of these massive herds as they migrate across the Serengeti, with each spread representing a day in the life of the herds. Dramatic scenes are played out on every page, chronicling life and death in one of the most fascinating and complex ecosystems in the world. With its extraordinary photographs and text, African Odyssey takes you on an unforgettable journey.

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