Author: Noel Ashton Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 1920572813 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Southern Africa has some of the best whale and dolphin watching opportunities in the world, with over half of the world’s species being found in our waters. Watching Whales & Dolphins in Southern Africa is an essential guide to watching the region’s 12 more common species. In addition to species accounts and charts that aid identification, this guide provides detailed information on cetaceans – their evolution, senses, behaviour, classification and anatomy. Multiple, clear images, both photographic and illustrated, help identify each species by showing how to read the partial signs that cetaceans usually offer, such as a flipper, tail, or even just their ‘blow’. The book also discusses the tragic toll that hunting has had on whale populations, and the ongoing struggle to protect these majestic mammals. This is an invaluable guide for anyone wishing to know more about whales and dolphins of the region.
Author: Allan Davie Publisher: 30 Degrees South Pub Pty Limited ISBN: 9781920143244 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Whale-watching in South Africa -- one of the most exciting activities in some of the most beautiful destinations in the world. The South African Whale Route stretches from Paternoster/Saldanha Bay on the West Coast (Atlantic), south around the Cape of Good Hope, and some 2,500 kilometres northeast to Kosi Bay in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (St Lucia), a World Heritage Site, just south of the Mozambican border on the Indian Ocean. Southern right whales leave Antarctica in May/June, and swim thousands of kilometres to mate, calve and entertain whale-watchers along the coast. When they leave, the humpback whales arrive with their calves. Enthusiasts have the option of land-based viewing -- with excellent opportunities in the Cape's Stillbaai, Witsand, Hermanus (the self-proclaimed whale-watching capital of the world, with its own whale crier!), De Kelders near Gansbaai, as well as along the breathtakingly scenic Garden Route at Mossel Bay, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay -- and north-east up through the Wild Coast and finally to the Dolphin Coast of northern Zululand. Boat-based expeditions are also growing in popularity and offer whale-watchers a chance to get up-close and personal with these wondrous denizens of the deep. This book offers visitors and enthusiasts all they need to know to plan a whale-watching trip -- and will teach you the meaning of blowing, breaching, lobtailing, spy-hopping and grunting!
Author: Zakes Mda Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374708193 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
"A voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --The New York Times The Whale Caller, Zakes Mda's fifth novel, is his most enchanting and accessible book yet-a romantic comedy of sorts in which the changing face of post-apartheid South Africa is revealed through prodigious, lyrical storytelling. As the novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus, on the country's west coast, is overrun with whale watchers-foreign tourists wearing floral shirts and toting expensive binoculars, determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the Whale Caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he calls Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the Whale Caller frets like a jealous lover-oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him. After much ado-which Mda relates with great relish-the two misfits fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their on-again, off-again relationship suggests something of the fitful nature of change in post-apartheid South Africa, where just living from one day to the next can be challenge enough. Mda has spoken of the end of apartheid as a lifting of the South African novelist's burden to write on political subjects. With The Whale Caller, he has written a tender, charming novel-the work of a virtuoso among international writers.
Author: Callan Cohen Publisher: Struik ISBN: 9781868727254 Category : Africa, Southern Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The essential companion to all local bird field guides, this book fills a gap in the market for a comprehensive guide to the region's top birding spots and to finding southern Africa and Madagascar's most desirable birds.
Author: Chris Fallows Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 1452100810 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 197
Book Description
The renowned wildlife photographer presents his most awe-inspiring images of great whites, hammerheads, and other shark breeds in this compelling volume. For most people, sharks and fear go hand in hand. But photographer and conservationist Chris Fallows maintains a more nuanced relationship with the super predator. Gasp-inducing in their immediacy and surprise, Fallows’s brilliant photographs present these mighty creatures in a different light. In Great White, Fallows’s work reveals the sublime beauty of sharks and provides a rare glimpse into their unseen world. Fallows captures these fearsome creatures as they breach the water’s surface in awesome displays of power. He also follows them below the waves to capture their mysterious underwater domain. A one-of-a-kind portrait of the shark and a superlative study of the nature photographer’s art, this collection elicits a deep appreciation for the creatures that inhabit our oceans.
Author: James Higham Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521195977 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 425
Book Description
A critical insight into the diverse socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts of the global whale-watching industry.
Author: Vic Cockcroft Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
An informative guide for those keen to learn more about whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals. It is divided into two sections. The first focuses on the practical aspects of whale and dolphin watching in Southern Africa: when to see them and where; routes to the prime whale-viewing sites; and how to differentiate species based on tail flukes, fins, head sprays and other disctinguishing features of the different animals. The second section takes the form of a guide to the 46 different species of marine mammal found in Southern Africa - the whales, dolphins and seals.
Author: Noel Ashton
Author: Peter B. Best
Author: P. B. Best
Author: Allan Davie
Author: Zakes Mda
Author: Erich Hoyt
Author: Callan Cohen
Author: Chris Fallows
Author: James Higham
Author: Vic Cockcroft