Serengeti: Natural Order on the African Plain

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Creator: Mitsuaki Iwago
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

8 reviews
Sales Rank: 296535

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 0877014418
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.967827
EAN: 9780877014416
ASIN: 0877014418

Publication Date: June 1, 1987
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Spending 18 months on the Serengeti Plain of eastern Africa, Iwago captures in nearly 300 extraordinary full-color images a world of calm beauty and quick violence, where the daily drama of life and death for over two million animals is played against a spectacular landscape. Sure to win a new round of fans, this classic, best-selling (over 90,000 copies sold!) volume of wildlife photography is now available in a handsomely jacketed new hardcover edition.

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5 out of 5 stars

Circle of Life in East Africa Documented in Stunning Photographs August 29, 2006
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent choice if you're going or have gone... August 4, 2006
jen (North Carolina USA)
This book has the pictures we wish we could have taken, excellent information, covers the serengeti from rain season to dry. Highly recommend for someone going to or who has been to the serengeti.

3 out of 5 stars

Picture book January 27, 2004
GEORGE R. FISHER (Boston MA United States)
8 out of 16 found this review helpful

The pictures are stunning.

But it is only a coffee-table book, and there it will remain, because pictures is all it is. You get no sense of place; it is impossible to orient yourself ... a nice picture of an elephant is just that, and this book provides no context whatever.

But, it does have nice pictures.

3 out of 5 stars Pictures, just pictures May 17, 2002
RG Wade (Birmingham, W Midlands United Kingdom)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful

The pictures are fine, but this book won't show anyone interested in wildlife anything new - & it doesn't explain anything...

5 out of 5 stars Wildlife and nature photography at its best! January 21, 2002
Bob (CA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

These images bring the Serengeti to you. This being largely a pictoral tour of the Serengeti, words do it little justice. If you are an intelligent animal lover with a pulse, you will pay twice the cover price for this book.