Africa's Animal Kingdom: A Visual Celebration

Kit Coppard. PRC Publishing, $24.95 (512pp) ISBN 978-1-85648-590-6

The lively, full-color photos that leap from every page of Kit Coppard's (Big Cats) Africa's Animal Kingdom: A Visual Celebration are stunning, but hold no surprises for readers who enjoy wildlife photography. What distinguishes this book is its exhaustive wealth of information. Coppard presents an excellent encyclopedic guide to Africa and its myriad species. Providing the facts without fuss, his spare writing style underscores the book's visual drama. ( May)

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