Illustrated book about Namibia with impressive landscape photographs. Written by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas, published by Edition Delis. The cover shows a desert landscape.
The desert is quickly associated with a life-threatening environment, desolation and a barren landscape – and yet the desert has always impressed humankind. This applies above all to the Namib, the oldest desert on Earth, which gave the state of Namibia its name. This vast country of fascinating beauty stretches between South Africa and Angola. In the far west, characterised by an arid climate, dense veils of fog cover the huge red sand dunes along the wild Atlantic coast every morning. Majestic granite inselbergs shaped by wind and erosion rise from the immeasurable expanse of the rocky desert in the Namib Naukluft Nature Reserve. Truly poetic testimonies of geology can be found amid the multicoloured rock formations of the Kaokoland region. The two authors Bernadette Gilbertas and Olivier Grunewald travelled for months across the wide landscapes and drew inspiration from the magical light of south-western Africa. With patience and perseverance, they explored the impressive strategies that flora and fauna had to develop in order to survive in the hot world of sand and stone – not only in the Namib Desert, but also along the so-called Skeleton Coast and in Etosha National Park, a salt pan that is one of Africa’s most beautiful and wildlife-rich nature reserves. All these regions, which are also at the centre of the booming tourism industry, are portrayed in lavish images, with grandiose landscape photographs as well as photos of the fascinating animal and plant life taking centre stage: an extraordinary journey of discovery through the desert of life
Pages 192
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 25.5 x 2.2 x 34.4 cm