This new, larger format edition of the best-selling and well known The Wildlife of Southern Africa – a field guide to the animals and plants of the region is designed to provide an even more user-friendly manual, with larger text and bigger, clearer images. Fully updated with the latest taxonomy and common names, it features over 2 000 carefully selected plants and animals, large and small, that are likely to be encountered during a visit to any part of the region. More than 1 200 species are vividly illustrated and many more are identifiable from the text through reference to similar species.

Each group is colour-coded for easy reference and, for quick identification, diagnostic features are in bold text within the concise descriptions. The sections are written by leading experts in their fields:

Lower invertebrates	Mike Musgrave
Spiders and other arachnids	Astri Leroy
Insects	Mike Musgrave
Freshwater fishes	Paul Skelton
Frogs	Vincent Carruthers
Reptiles	Bill Branch
Birds	Ken Newman and Christine Reed
Mammals	Peter Apps
Grasses, sedges, ferns and fungi	Elsa Pooley
Wild flowers	Elsa Pooley
Trees	Elsa Pooley

This larger illustrated guide covers all the major groups of plants and animals in the southern African region, making it the ideal companion for all who venture outdoors – visitors to game parks, hikers, holiday-makers, birders and gardeners.

Vincent Carruthers is a well known environmentalist, who has written and contributed to a range of highly regarded publications, including Frogs & Frogging (Struik Publishers). He serves on the board of a number of environmental organisations and runs a management consultancy. In 1989 he was awarded the prestigious Stevenson-Hamilton Medal by the Zoological Society of Southern Africa for his contribution as an amateur zoologist.

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