Okavango: Africa's Last Eden

Frans Lanting's vibrant tribute to Old Africa revisited on its 20th anniversary. For a year, between 1988 and 1989, Frans Lanting roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana, living by the rhythms of the water and the movements of the animals as he captured them on film. The 'National Geographic' had sent him there on assignment, but what he would take away was much more than a magazine story, it was a seminal and unparalleled collection of photographs depicting a world of flora and fauna that many had assumed no longer existed on this earth. Living out of vehicles and canvas tents, gliding through swamps, following lions by night - Lanting, armed with his Nikon FE2, got up close and personal with some of the planet's most formidable creatures. The book he published a few years later, Okavango, was a testament not only to the wondrous wildlife of the region, but also to Lanting's extraordinary courage, skill, and photographic eye. After many publications of Lanting's work, including 'Jungles', 'Eye to Eye', and 'Penguin', 'Taschen' now revisits his original classic with this updated and expanded edition of 'Okavango: Africa's Last Eden', further enhanced with all new reproductions and dozens of previously unpublished photos, as well a new preface by Lanting.