Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers
Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers

Author: Jean Hartley

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9966151044

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jean Hartley, born in Kenya, is acknowledged as being the first to legitimise fixing for wildlife film crews. Over the last 25 years, she has worked on over a thousand films, the vast majority being about wildlife and nature. She features five of the great film makers who all started their careers in Kenya in the1950s, legends whom she is proud to call personal friends. Watching all of their films, and many more, she became fascinated by the history of film making in Kenya and determined to find out when it all started. In this insightful book, she traces the roots of wildlife film back a hundred years, drawing on accounts of the original film makers and the professional hunters who guided those early safaris. She tracks the changes from those grainy, speeded up, silent films through to the technologically perfect High Definition and 3D films that are being made today.

Shooting in the Wild
Shooting in the Wild

Author: Chris Palmer

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1458715582

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Longtime producer Palmer provides an in-depth look at wild animals on film, covering the history of wildlife documentaries, safety issues, and the never-ending pressure to obtain the money shot. Marlin Perkins, Jacques Cousteau, Steve Irwin, Timothy Treadwell, and many other familiar names are discussed along with their work, accidents, and in some cases, untimely deaths. Palmer is highly critical of Irwin, and offers fascinating revelations about game farms used by exploitative filmmakers and photographers looking for easy shots and willing to use caged animals to obtain them. He also considers the subliminal messages of many wildlife films, considering everything from Shark Week to Happy Feet and how they manipulate audiences toward preset conclusions about animal behavior. In all this is an engaging and exceedingly timely look at a form of entertainment the public has long taken for granted and which, as Palmer points out, really needs a fresh and careful reconsideration.

Ivory, Apes and Peacocks
Ivory, Apes and Peacocks

Author: Alan Root

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0099555883

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, and also bear witness to a natural world now largely lost from view.

African Animal Alphabet
African Animal Alphabet

Author: Beverly Joubert

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1426307810

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Presents pictures and facts about African animals with each letter of the alphabet.

Disney Nature: African Cats
Disney Nature: African Cats

Author: Amanda Barrett

Publisher: Disney Editions

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423134107

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the heart of Africa, the Masai Mara Game Reserve is a place where, in place of justice and fairness, raw power rules the day, and to survive means to fight. Lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, gazelles, and other large mammals roam the vast, rolling plains of the reserve, and with so many species competing for space and food, the stakes are high, and danger looms at every turn./DIV In African Cats: Kingdom of Courage, filmmakers Keith Scholey and Amanda Barrett follow the lives of some of the Masai Mara’s big cats, focusing on two lionesses and a cheetah and her adorable cubs. This companion book to their incredible film offers a fascinating exploration of the unique, yet interwoven, stories of each cat. Filled with stunning photographs of the Kenyan plains and the remarkable animals that reside on them, this book will take you on an unforgettable journey chronicling the struggle to survive.DIV