Wildlife of Southern Africa

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Carruthers, Vincent

ISBN

9781775843535

Format

Paperback

Recommended Price

R420.00

Published

October 2016

About the book:

This long-standing, trusted field guide to the wildlife of southern Africa has been comprehensively updated and now includes distribution maps. It describes over 2,000 plants and animals, each accompanied by accurate illustrations in full colour. This book has been a trusted field companion for many years. Comprehensively updated, it now features range maps for most groups. The chapters are colour-coded for easy reference, and diagnostic features appear in bold type within the descriptions. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field.

All the main plant and animal groups are covered:

Lower invertebrates
Spiders and other arachnids
Insects
Freshwater fishes
Frogs
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
Grasses, sedges, ferns and fungi
Wild flowers
Trees

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Vincent Carruthers is a well-known environmentalist, who has written and contributed to a range of highly regarded publications, including Frogs & Frogging in Southern Africa and the Complete Guide to the Frogs of Southern Africa, published by Penguin Random House.

He serves on the board of a number of environmental organisations and runs a management consultancy. In 1989 he was awarded the prestigious Stevenson-Hamilton Medal by the Zoological Society of Southern Africa for his contribution as an amateur zoologist.