Africa From the Nile Delta to Table Mountain

About this book

The world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants, Africa offers a diversity of culture and landscape rarely seen elsewhere – ranging from the Ancient Egyptian kingdom of the pharaohs on the banks of the River Nile to the deepest recesses of the Congo rainforest, one of the most biodiverse environments on the planet.

Divided into five chapters by region, Africa is a sumptuous introduction to this most vibrant of continents. Be amazed at the spectacular Victoria Falls, which is the world's largest sheet of falling water from a height of 108 metres (354ft); explore the Congo River, second largest in the world by volume, as it snakes through the ancient forests of central Africa; enjoy the view from Table Mountain, across Cape Town to the Lion's Head and the South Atlantic; experience the diversity of creatures in the Serengeti National Park, including herds of wild elephants and Cape Buffalo, as well as their primary predators, lions and leopards; and marvel at the 13th century Dejenne Mosque in Mali, made from wooden scaffolding and clay.

Presented in a landscape format with more than 180 vivid photographs of Africa, this book offers a pictorial exploration of this great and varied continent in all its majesty.

Contents

Introduction

North Africa
Nile river
Suez Canal
Sinai
Luxor Temple, Egypt
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
Aswan, Egypt
Abu Simbel, Egypt
Leptis Magna, Libya
Cyrene, Libya
Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt
Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Asilah, Morocco
Casablanca, Morocco
Marrakech, Morocco
Traditional leather tanneries, Fez, Morocco
Tunis, Tunisia
Notre-Dame d'Afrique, Algeria
Sahara desert

West Africa
Ganvie Lake Village, Benin
Mole National Park, Ghana
Slave forts - Goree Island
Coastal Forts, Ghana
Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal
Loango National Park, Gabon
Timbuktu, Mali
Bandiagara, Dogon Country, Mali
Kakum National Park, Ghana
Djenne, Mali
Agadez, Niger
Lagos, Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria

Central Africa
Congo River
Congo rainforest
Mount Nyirangongo
Gorillas and bonobos - Virunga National Park in Congo (Kinshasa)
Gorillas in Rwanda
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Brazzaville, Congo rep
Mount Cameroon, Cameroon
Zinga, Central African rep
Chinko Nature Reserve
Boali Falls
Lobaye, indigenous tribes, Central African republic
San Tome

East Africa
Lake Victoria
Victoria Falls
Lake Nyasa
Dar es Salaam
Mombasa
Zambezi River
Meroe pyramids, Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan
Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya
Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Serengeti NP
Cape buffalo, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Great Migration in Masai Mara, Kenya
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania Zanzibar, Tanzania
Traditional Maasai village, Arusha,
Tanzania
Dasanesh people, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Abuna Yemata Guh church, Ethiopia

Southern Africa
Dunes in Sossusvlei, Namibia
Okavango Delta in Botswana
Cape Town/Table Mtn, South Africa
Robben Island, South Africa
Eastern Cape Game Reserves, SA
Garden Route, SA
Lions in Kruger National Park, SA
Elephant Coast, SA
Great Zimbabwe ruins
Madagascar rainforest and fauna
Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique
Lake Malawi

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Biography

Anne-Marie Bissada is an editor and journalist who specialises in African and Middle Eastern politics and culture. She has travelled extensively across Africa for reporting and leisure. She currently works at The Africa Report, and before was on-air at Radio-France Internationale.