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Wild at Heart.
Man and Beast in Southern Africa.
Photographs by Chris Johns. Text by Peter Godwin.
National Geographic, Washington, 2002.
176 pp.,
128 color illustrations,
15x10½".
Publisher's Description
WILD AT HEART
MAN AND BEAST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
In stunning photographs and illuminating text, Wild at Heart
reveals majestic southern Africa as defined by the entangled
relationships among its wildlife, peoples, and geography.
Reprising the years-long, in-depth collaboration that produced much of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine's coverage of southern Africa,
award-winning photographer Chris Johns and veteran foreign correspondent Peter Godwin present this important critical exploration of
the region's myriad facets and its collisions between tradition and
modernity, conservation and development, and people and animals.
In evocative photographs and accompanying anecdotal text, Wild at Heart crisscrosses southern Africa-from the Kalahari Desert and Drakensburg Mountains to the Skeleton coast and Zambesi River-to reveal
its diverse populations and wildlife and highlight their often unacknowledged interdependence. Johns's superb photographs of wildlife,
including cheetahs, rhinos, and elephants, and his sensitive portraits of
Himba pastoralists, San Bushmen hunter-gatherers, Zulu farmers, and
other populations are combined with Godwin's passionate, lyric stories
that both entertain and enlighten. The result is a finely detailed yet
panoramic image of southern Africa that underscores the indissoluble
connections between all its elements and speculates on the prospects
for a future based on understanding those connections.
Beautifully presented in a unique, oversize format with a top-
opening spine that allows gallery-quality presentation of the images,
Wild at Heart is destined to become a classic.
CHRIS JOHNS
wasnamed
Newspaper Photographer o f the Year in
1979 while a staff photographer for the
Topeka Capital-Journal. Before joining
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine in
1995 and becoming senior editor of illustra-
tions in 2001, Johns worked as a freelance
photographer for Life, Time, and NATiONA
GEOGRAPHIC. The author o f Valley of
Life: Africa's Great Rift, he lives with
his family on a farm in Virginia's Blue
Ridge Mountains.
PETER GODWIN
grew up in the
Zimbabwe bush and attended university in
England before becoming an award-winnin
foreign correspondent for the London
Sunday Times and the BBC. He is the
author o f four books, including Rhodesians
Never Die and Mukiwa: A White Boy in
Africa. He lives in New York.
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