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Africa  •  Michael Poliza NATURAL HISTORY •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 408 PAGES Cape Town-based Poliza's 12-pound behemoth (packaged in its own carrying case) is a labor of love -- and worth every cent. It's a lavishly produced, mesmerizing celebration of the diversity of Africa and especially its wildlife. The German photographer loves color and pattern, abundantly on display here, with each of the 180 exquisite images printed across two jumbo pages. He followed up with a breathtaking helicopter journey from Hamburg to Cape Town, showcased in his new book, Eyes Over Africa. (AFR180, $125.00)
Africa, Continent of Contrasts  •  Philip Briggs  •  Martin Harvey  •  Ariadne van Zandbergen NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 296 PAGES As personable as he is well-informed, the man behind the Bradt Guides to Africa, Philip Briggs, penned the engaging text for this first foray into illustrated books. It's a handsomely produced, oversize portrait of a continent, its people, landscapes and wildlife, organized geographically. (AFR181, $40.00)
Africa  •  Sebastiao Salgado CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 336 PAGES Eye on Africa. Thirty years of Salgado's powerful images of Africa, selected by the photojournalist himself, with text by Mozambique novelist Mia Couto. (AFR207, $70.00)
From Lucy to Language  •  Donald Johanson  •  Blake Edgar ARCHAEOLOGY •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES A strikingly illustrated survey of hominid evolution, featuring stunning color photographs of significant fossils, tools, and cave art, revised, updated and expanded for this second edition. Nearly all the early hominid remains are photographed in full color, mostly at actual size. Johanson supplies the concise, admirably clear accompanying text. (EAF85, $65.00)
Stanley, The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer  •  Tim Jeal BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 608 PAGES With unprecedented access to previously closed Stanley family archives, Jeal reveals the extent to which Stanley's public career and private life have been misunderstood. In this grand revisionist biography, Jeal spins a tale of tragedy, adventure, disappointment, and success. (AFR198, $38.00)
Serengeti, Natural Order on the African Plain  •  Mitsuaki Iwago NATURAL HISTORY •  1987 •  HARD COVER  • 280 PAGES • BEST SELLER • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE This handsomely produced volume by celebrated Tokyo photographer Iwago features 300 full-color images of the Serengeti plains. It's one of our favorite photo collections -- beautiful and timeless. (EAF04, $35.00)
Dogon, Africa's People of the Cliffs  •  Stephanie Hollyman CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES A cultural portrait of the Dogon people of Mali. For thousands of years, despite extensive contact with Western civilization, the Dogon have maintained their old way of life, living in mud-brick houses below the Bandiagara cliffs, harvesting millet and sorghum in the sandy plains. Stephanie Hollyman's 125 intimate photographs capture the essence of this tightly knit, cooperative society. (WAF46, $49.50)

African Ceremonies  •  Carol Beckwith  •  Angela Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Beckwith and Fisher team up to capture traditional ceremonies and contemporary culture throughout the continent in this lavishly produced, two-volume collection of 850 color photographs. Presented in a slip case. (AFR76, $150.00)
African Ceremonies  •  Carol Beckwith   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A one-volume collection of 473 photographs from Beckwith's sumptuous book on traditional African ceremony and ritual. With an audio CD. (AFR215, $49.95)
Tribes of the Great Rift Valley  •  Elizabeth Gilbert   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A photojournalist based in East Africa since 1991, Gilbert (Broken Spears) turns her attention on the traditional peoples of Eritrea, the Ethiopian highlands, and plains of Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi in this collection of striking black-and-white photographs. (EAF180, $75.00)
Bogolan, Shaping Culture Through Cloth in Contemporary Mali  •  Victoria Rovine   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN NOVEMBER  •  A beautifully illustrated survey of the transformation of bogolanfini (mudcloth) textiles in Mali from its traditional rural roots to contemporary symbol. With 24 color and 33 black-and-white photographs and maps. (WAF62, $24.95)
Inside Africa, North and East  •  Angelika Taschen   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A showcase of the diversity of style across Africa from village architecture to luxurious lodges, ornate palaces and celebrated homes, sumptuously packaged in ornate cloth covers. A second book (AFR91, $49.99) highlights domestic interiors from Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana and the Ivory Coast to South Africa. (AFR190, $59.99)
Africa's Big Five  •  Will Taylor  •  Gerald Hinde  •  Richard Du Toit   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  South African photographers and naturalists teamed up for this oversize, illustrated celebration of the lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and buffalo. (AFR178, $39.95)
Eyes over Africa  •  Michael Poliza   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Poliza takes to the air in this second book, superbly illustrated the beauty and diversity of Africa in stunning low aerial photographs. (AFR205, $125.00)
In Search of Remarkable Trees, On Safari in Southern Africa  •  Thomas Pakenham   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Pakenham interweaves travel, social history, folklore and botany in this illustrated account of journeys in search of spectacular, old and amazing baobobs, jacarandas and other noteworthy sylva of Southern Africa. (SAF195, $45.00)
Ngorongoro  •  Reinhard Kunkel   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Kunkel's three hundred stunning photographs celebrate the abundant wildlife of the region. Kunkel has been traveling and photographing in the region since 1973. (EAF165, $75.00)
The End of the Game, The Last Word from Paradise  •  Peter Beard  •  Paul Theroux   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In this classic, resurrected by the art publishers Taschen and with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Beard documents, with dozens of paintings and 300 modern and historic photographs, the history of explorers, missionaries and big-game hunters in Africa. (AFR09, $39.99)