Backseat Safari
Ten years and 250 000 kilometres ago, Robyn Keene-Young left the corporate world to live in a tent and document the African wild with her husband, Adrian Bailey. He’d take the pictures and she’d write the copy. By turns funny and sad, dramatic and thought provoking, Backseat Safari chronicles their adventures and misadventures photographing the [...]
Safari
For many Africa first-timers, the Serengeti, as viewed from the safety of a car window or roof hatch, probably lives up to all expectations. But, like all wilderness junkies, we felt we’d graduated from Safari 101. We craved something more adventurous and stimulating. It was time to see what else Africa had to offer. Time [...]
Okavango: A Journey
The Okavango is a dynamic ecosystem that has been shaped by many natural forces, from tectonic disruptions to the impact of mammals; from the land-scouring effects of water to the minute lives of insects. The magical trip depicted in this book reflects the ways in these forces influence this ever-changing environment. The Okavango Delta is [...]
Dwellers in Eden
Dwellers in Eden is a portfolio featuring photographer Adrian Bailey’s best images. From his work over the previous decade in southern Africa’s wild places, Bailey has selected his favourite images and brought them together in a notional wilderness untouched by modern man – the Eden of the title. The result is a glimpse of an [...]
Wild Kruger
For over 100 years, the Kruger National Park has provided sanctuary to southern Africa’s most precious asset, its wildlife. Wild Kruger pays tribute to this achievement, capturing the essence of this conservation success story. Loosely ordered by habitat, Wild Kruger meanders through the park’s arterial rivers, into the bushveld, its expansive forests and grasslands and [...]
Wild Botswana
Botswana is regularly hailed as Africa’s success story – with its history of democracy, its peaceful citizens and a healthy bank balance. But it is the country’s wilderness that commends it most highly. Wild Botswana takes readers through this wilderness, setting out across the sweeping Kalahari, the journey continues through the watery mirages of the [...]
Okavango: Africa’s Wetland Wilderness
Okavango: Africa’s Wetland Wilderness presents a record of a year spent in this Eden. The Okavango is a dramatic setting, and is host to an ever-unfolding performance by the creatures that live here. It seemed fitting, therefore, to present the book in the metaphor of a drama, in which the stage and props are provided [...]