Product Description

Two and a half million years ago, in what is today Northern Tanzania, the top blew off a gigantic volcanic mountain leaving behind one of the biggest craters in the world. Over the millennia the crater became a national park for wildlife. Herbivores followed vegetation to the Ngorongoro and predators followed herbivores. Men followed, too, hunting for the tusks of rhinos and elephants, and the coats of the zebra. Rangers, photographers, and anthropologists came, too, to the place that many call the Garden of Eden. Reinhard Kunkel's beautiful, often astonishing, sometimes startling images, alongside landscapes of a primeval grandeur, make this book a triumph of wildlife photography.
Reinhard Kunkel has been photographing there since 1973. He has lived with and shot the land and the animals - the lions, elephants, eagles, buffalo and hippopotamuses -- for the last thirty years. He has shot them mating, raising their young, killing their prey. He has watched herds of buffalo charge and scatter lions, followed the egrets searching for insects in the steps of the rhinos, stayed up nights waiting for the female rhino to accept the advances of the male, observed jackals and vultures staring each other down in confrontation over a kill, and the flamingoes feasting on the abundant blue-green algae. Unrivalled in the richness and diversity of its animal and plant life, Ngorongoro has been called the eighth wonder of the world.
The original edition of this book was published in the United States in 1992. Updated with new photographs and extended by a new 16-page signature on the Maasai, it is an unrivalled work of design and production. Limited to 5,000 copies world wide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83450 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-10
• Released on: 2006-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

About the Author
Reinhard Kunkel was born in Berlin in 1942 and studied economics in Saarbrucken. A German champion in his teens, his swimming career later led to his first African safari. The safari saw the end of the economist and the beginning of the wildlife photographer, film-maker and writer. He is the author of Elephants (1982), African Elephants (1999) and his photographs and articles have appeared in many magazines, including: National Geographic, Life, Stern, Geo, Paris-Match, Terre Sauvage, BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Sunday Times magazine. A number of his films have been broadcast by the BBC. He lives in Munich with is Australian wife and fellow photographer, Lala Kunkel.

Customer Reviews

Best wild life photography I have ever seen
5 years after visiting the crater, one browse of this book, which is always on display on a coffee table in my living room, instantly takes me back to one of the best sights I have visited in the world. I purchased this heavy book in Africa and had to carry it for 3 weeks, but I have no regrets. If it is possible to order this book in such an easy fashion today I would strongly advise it.

now you have to go yourself
If you ever had the desire to go to Africa and take pictures this is the book that will cause you to sell the house to make the desire come true. The photography is beyond the norm. Inspiring where mere words could not do justice. Well done in all ways.

Ngorogoro
Breathtaking photography. Kunkel has captured the atmosphere so brilliantly that I felt as though I was back in this spectacular place. Bravo!