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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Burgoyne & Burgoyne, Publishers
ISBN-10
0974218308
ISBN-13
9780974218304
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47684156
Product Key Features
Book Title
Into the Okavango : the Africa Poems and Photographs
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Special Interest / Adventure, Africa / General, Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Animals / General
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel, Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
77 Oz
Item Length
13 in
Item Width
12 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-099168
Dewey Edition
22
Photographed by
Burgoyne, Marianne Harding, Burgoyne, Robert H.
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Synopsis
Take an African safari with us! Into the Okavango: The Africa Poems and Photographs (ISBN 0-9742183-0-8) is a 216-page, 92-poem, 500-photograph, 12 x 13 inch adventure, taking its readers on twenty-three days of safaris through Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, detailing first encounters with elephants, cheetahs, lions, leopards, hippopotamuses, crocodiles, and more. The photographers feature Victoria Falls and Cape Point by helicopter. As the safaris get more dangerous, the camps more remote, the poet embarks on a darker, shadow journey to the sad, painful secrets of her soul, not often visited. There, in the small, dark section of the poems (Cutty Sark), she confronts a childhood tragedy and its lifelong consequence. Rounding Cape Point by helicopter proves to be a triumphant catharsis for the poet. "I was born wanting to go to Africa," she writes. By her first evening there, she is already in harmony: "Later by the campfire, the Cimmerian night, without lights from any city nearby, touched the sand. I felt a chill. In this hemisphere, the sky turned on itself; Scorpius had overthrown Orion. We were told we could not walk back to our tent unaccompanied by a guide. 'Hyenas,' Phineas said, 'come into camp this late,' and I knew only few men go flaming, forbidden into the Okavango." Exquisitely photographed, Into the Okavango is organized by individual safari camps, featuring a bleeder page and two-page spread for each of the nine camps, 4 x 6 photographs on verso pages set up as a photograph album, and large 8 x 8 photographs on recto pages, which feature close-ups of the animals. In short, this poetry-photography collection about Africa's animals explores an autobiographical epiphany and functions as an eclectic travel guide as well. Readers who love adventure, the lure of undiscover'd country, the face of death, will like the purposely simple, fast-reading, revelatory poems¿creative memories¿and find two journeys worth their taking.
LC Classification Number
PS3602.U75I58 2005
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