Across nearly 20,000 square kilometres of ancient land, Kruger National Park reveals itself not as a destination, but as a living, breathing presence. In this extraordinary book, the park speaks through a chorus of voices: rangers, scientists, workers, travellers and the wildlife and landscape itself.
From the slow rhythm of a dawn drive to the magnetic silence of a riverbank, each page invites you deeper into a world where elephants shape landscapes, antelope sustain entire ecosystems and birds carry echoes of deep time.   rough intimate interviews and vivid storytelling, the hidden life of the park emerges: the dedication of those who protect it, the complexity of conservation, the rough lives of the poachers who plunder it and the everpresent tension between...
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Dr Don Pinnock is a historian, criminologist, environmental journalist and photographer. He has served as editor of the travel magazine Getaway and is the author or co-author of 18 books, including The Last Elephants. He has won two Mondi Awards and the City Press Non-Fiction Award, and was shortlisted for the European Union Literary Award.
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