Portraits of the Wild – Southern Africa –

“The animals of southern Africa are under siege. The siege has lasted for hundreds of years; the death toll runs into millions.
A seemingly unstoppable tide of humanity has swept into the hinterland, spreading the ethic of ‘civilisation’ and destroying natural cycles which had changed little in thousands of years. It is a siege that only conscience compassion and good sense can halt.

Few people know or understand this wild realm better than photographer Gerald Cubitt, who has explored vast stretches of savanna, desert, forest, and mountain to capture on film one of the world’s largest and most diverse animal kingdoms.

Portraits of the Wild reflects the photographers’ love of his subject: here is Africa in all its raw splendour; here are the animals in all their moods. This book portrays nature as it really is – without sentiment, often cruel. It is a reminder of the heritage we so desperately need to preserve, and a salute to those who are trying.’