Serengeti: Natural Order on the African Plain
by Mitsuaki Iwago
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Author: Mitsuaki IwagoPhotographer: Mitsuaki Iwago
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1987-06-01
ISBN: 0877014418
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Book Review: Circle of Life in East Africa Documented in Stunning Photographs
Summary: 5 Stars
Pay heed to the subtitle of this book - "Natural Order on the African Plain" - as it does not shy away from images that may not show up in a children's book. I'm so glad this tome is still in publication, as it is a beautifully photographed document of life and death on the Serengeti Plain that stretches across Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. Photographer Mitsuaki Iwago has captured the vibrancy of the mythic wildlife of this expansive area, in particular, the scope of the Great Migration, when over a million wildebeest and zebra travel hundreds of miles in search of water.
Iwago has a wondrous eye for detail, whether it's an uninterrupted pattern of zebras with their heads bowed to drink up from a watering hole or a gaggle of hungry hawks gnawing on the dead carcass of a lion. My personal favorites are any pictures showing adult animals and their children and the ones showing the Masai villagers living so naturally amid the wildlife. Even the eye-wincing scenes of death make for vivid reminders of how essential the cycle of life is on the plain. I have been lucky enough to have been on safari on the Masai Mara, which is the northern part of the plain, and the images in Iwago's book perfectly evoke my experiences on the range rover as we looked at life happen. This is a great coffee-table book at the right size not to be overwhelming.
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A grand visual panorama of life, death, and renewal on the great Serengeti plain of Africa. 280 color photographs.Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Books
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