Drawn From The Plains: Life in the Wilds of Namibia and Mocambique. By Lynne Tinley. Illustrations by the author. Also illustrated with 2 maps. Published by AuthorHouse, 2008. Softcover. xvi, Measures 9" x 6".
Lynne Tinley and
her husband Ken, who is one of the leading ecologists in Africa, have devoted
many years to a race against time. On the Etosha Pan, in the isolated and
spectacular wildernesses of Namibia, and later on the other side of the
continent at Gorongosa in Mocambique, they set out to gather information which
was urgently needed if the natural ecological balances of these and other
African parks and reserves were to be preserved. Living in the wilderness they
discovered a wealth of wonders. Sketching this far-off world of risk and
hardship in words and pictures Lynne conveys images of great beauty,
controversial biology, anthropology and veld humour. Moreover she provides a
vivid and entertaining account of how to raise a boy and girl in the bush.
Together the family survives terrorist raids, charging hippo, elephant and
lion, rabid dog bites, baboon spiders, gaboon vipers, acid-shooting beetles,
alcoholic snails, dangling camel membranes, and the Fat Mouse. They eat
elephant trunk Portuguese-style and termites cooked by bushmen. From
Otjovasandu- The place where the elephants come through -to the wind-swept
desert pan at Okaukuejo, to the Cheringoma Plateau, through burning midday mirage
and freezing lion-roaring, baboon-sobbing nights, with great sensitivity and
fatalism, and an eye for the peculiarities of those who live to survive in the
outer reaches, Lynne Tinley records an incredible, fast-moving period of human
and animal history.
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