Frans Lanting. Okavango

Frans Lanting. Okavango

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<div id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>Beauty of the beasts: Frans Lanting’s vibrant tribute to the Old Africa of Okavango</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div id="description_text"> <em>"Botswana, many say, represents the last of Old Africa. And in the heart of this arid land lies a place as inspiring and as incongruous as the snow-capped summit of Kilimanjaro rising on the equator: that is the Okavango, one of the greatest wetlands on earth, whose very existence in the middle of a desert is nothing short of miraculous." </em>—Frans Lanting, 1993<br /> <br /> For a year, Frans Lanting roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana, living by the rhythms of the water and the movements of the animals as he captured them on film. <em>National Geographic</em> had sent him there on assignment, but what he would take away was much more than a magazine story; <strong>it was a seminal and unparalleled collection of photographs depicting an epic world of wilderness and wildlife</strong>. As Lanting wrote, <em>“To many who have seen the fate of other wild areas in Africa and elsewhere in the world, the very notion that such a place as Okavango still exists is like a dream.”</em> Living out of vehicles and canvas tents, gliding through swamps, following lions by night—<strong>Lanting, armed with his cameras, got up close and personal with some of the planet’s most formidable creatures</strong>.<br /> <br /> The book he published a few years later, <em>Okavango</em>, was <strong>a testament not only to the wondrous wildlife of the region, but also to Lanting’s extraordinary courage, skill, and photographic vision</strong>. After many publications of Lanting’s work, including <em>Life</em>, <em>Jungles, Eye to Eye, </em>and<em> Penguin</em>, <strong>TASCHEN now revisits his original classic which drew critical praise worldwide with this updated and expanded edition</strong> of <em>Okavango</em>, further enhanced with all new reproductions and dozens of previously unpublished photos, as well as a new preface by Lanting.</div>