WILD HEART OF AFRICA: THE SELOUS GAME RESERVE IN TANZANIA. Edited by Rolf D. Baldus.

2009 1st edition limited issue. Large 4to. Ppii,xx,268. Colour and b/w photographs, colour paintings and ills. Quarter bonded leather and pictorial cloth gilt.

The Selous, a game reserve in southern Tanzania, is the largest protected wildlife area in the world. There are no people living within its boundaries and it contains some of the greatest wildlife concentrations on the continent, including 70 000 elephant, over 120 000 buffalo, more than half a million antelope and a couple of thousand large carnivores roaming freely in its forests, riverine thickets, steppes and mountain ranges. The contributors to this book share over a century of work in the reserve. They also share the belief that the Selous is not only the largest and oldest protected area in Africa but that it is also one of the finest in the world. They hope that this book will make the public aware of how important it is to conserve this World Heritage Site. Contributions from George Atanas, Rolf D. Baldus, Gerald Bigurube, Richard Bonham, Rudolf Hahn, Benson Kbonde, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bodo Meier, James McCarthy, Ireneus Ndunguru Ngwatura, Brian Nicholson, Christian Pitra, Alan Rodgers, Rolf Rohwer, Dieter Schramm, Gerald M.B. Selous, Mike Shand, Ludwig Siege, Neil Stronach and Erasmus Tarimo.