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Africa : around the world in 125 years / edited by Reuel Golden ; designed by Andy Disl ; essay by Joe Yogerst ; captions by Mark Collins Jenkins and Joe Yogerst ; based on an idea by Lawrence Schiller ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Köln : Taschen GmbH, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 312 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 38 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783836568760
  • 3836568764
Other title:
  • Around the world in 125 years : Africa
  • Africa [Spine title]
  • At head of title: National Geographic [Portion of title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "A photographic journey from Cairo to Cape Town, in and out of Africa with National Geographic's Around the World in 125 Years - Africa. Encompassing the best of National Geographic's pioneering photographs of Africa, this is the definitive visual expedition through the worlds most captivating continent. Adapted from our Around the World in 125 Years and with over 80 mesmerizing new images of spectacular landscapes, bustling cities, local traditions, and wildlife photography, this volume brings to life Africa's boundless beauty and diversity."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For over five generations, National Geographic magazine has dazzled and educated people with its incredible photographs and gripping stories from all corners of the earth. Inspired by our monumental Around the World in 125 Years, this volume curates around 200 captivating images sourced directly from the National Geographic historical archives, including 40 new photographs, that traverse the landscapes, history, cultures, and wildlife of Africa.Our continental journey through amazing Africa ranges from evocative early black-and-white pictures to autochromes, from the golden age of Kodachromes to digital. Along the way, we fly over the misty volcanoes of Uganda in a 1950s plane; follow archaeologists into the cool, musky tombs of Egypt; gaze up at the gleaming skyscrapers of Zimbabwe; admire the ritual masks of the Chokwe tribesmen of Angola; get lost in a labyrinth of alleys and souks in Algeria's old quarters; wonder at the fragile red-tufted flowers of South Africa's Drakensberg mountains; trudge behind Kenyan farmers as they battle clouds of flying locusts; and gingerly spy mountain gorillas enjoying the Rwandan sunshine.Long before the Travel Channel and Google Images, these images celebrated Africa's spectacular landscapes, incredible wildlife, and diversity--but also reflect edgier stories that speak of rural hardship, environmental threats, and the lasting remnants of forced colonization. Leaving no stone unturned, this definitive voyage is in equal parts a breathtaking homage to an incomparable continent, and a unique tribute to the world's most famous photography magazine.

"Photographs from the Archives of National Geographic and supplied by National Geographic Creative" --Colophon.

"A photographic journey from Cairo to Cape Town, in and out of Africa with National Geographic's Around the World in 125 Years - Africa. Encompassing the best of National Geographic's pioneering photographs of Africa, this is the definitive visual expedition through the worlds most captivating continent. Adapted from our Around the World in 125 Years and with over 80 mesmerizing new images of spectacular landscapes, bustling cities, local traditions, and wildlife photography, this volume brings to life Africa's boundless beauty and diversity."-- Provided by publisher.

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