Journey through Tanzania

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Tanzania is a land of rare beauty. Bordered by shimmering lakes and the Indian Ocean, it is East Africa's largest nation, half the size of Western Europe. Its natural treasures are unique: snowcapped Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain; Lake Tanganyika, its longest and deepest lake; Lake Victoria, the world's second largest lake; and Ngor-ongoro, its largest unbroken crater. Here too in the mighty Selous and the endless Serengeti wildlife sanctuaries roam the last of the great herds of African game. And then there are 500 miles of palm-fringed tropical coastline with the green islands of Zanzibar. Pemba and Mafia.
Although Tanzania is a new nation, it has a rich and ancient past. Fossils in Olduvai Gorge suggest that it was the home of the first race of men on earth. For thousands of years, it was a wealthy trading-centre in the Indian Ocean: a powerful and great Islamic civilization arose along the coast which built beautiful stone cities and gave birth to the Kiswahili... Tovább

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Tanzania is a land of rare beauty. Bordered by shimmering lakes and the Indian Ocean, it is East Africa's largest nation, half the size of Western Europe. Its natural treasures are unique: snowcapped Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain; Lake Tanganyika, its longest and deepest lake; Lake Victoria, the world's second largest lake; and Ngor-ongoro, its largest unbroken crater. Here too in the mighty Selous and the endless Serengeti wildlife sanctuaries roam the last of the great herds of African game. And then there are 500 miles of palm-fringed tropical coastline with the green islands of Zanzibar. Pemba and Mafia.
Although Tanzania is a new nation, it has a rich and ancient past. Fossils in Olduvai Gorge suggest that it was the home of the first race of men on earth. For thousands of years, it was a wealthy trading-centre in the Indian Ocean: a powerful and great Islamic civilization arose along the coast which built beautiful stone cities and gave birth to the Kiswahili language. After the early travellers - Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Rebmann and Krapf -came German and then British settlers who helped develop the country's rich potential.
Tanzania today is a fruitful and creative meeting-point of African, Arab, Asian and European cultures whose varied influences live on in its religions, customs, languages and architecture. Upright and confident, it is a dynamic nation forging a distinctive style of its own. Its original and independent path of development has moreover made it one of the most closely observed countries in Africa.
Peter Marshall, with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts, has captured the essence of this breathtaking country in a book as handsome as the subject it portrays.
Journey through Tanzania is a new volume in the Journey series of illustrated books produced by Camerapix Publishers International. Other titles in the series include: Journey through Pakistan and Journey through Kenya.
Jacket photographs: (front) A young cheetah, the world's fastest land animal; (back) Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.


MOHAMED AMIN
Africa's leading photographer has for 21 years portrayed the people, the wildlife and the dramatic events of the fast-changing continent. His photographs have appeared in books and magazines throughout the world. In 1969 he was named Cameraman of the Year in the British Television Awards and he has worked on several prize-winning documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Granada Television and others, and makes newsfilms under contract to Visnews, the world's biggest TV news agency.
He lived in Tanzania for 12 years and began his career in Dar es Salaam, where he laid the base for his international reputation.
Of more than 15 books which he has published, among the most recent are Pilgrimage to Mecca (1978), Mecca (1980), Cradle of Mankind (1981), Journey through Kenya (1982), Journey through Pakistan (1982), Run Rhino Run (1982), Ivory Crisis (1983) and Portraits of Africa (1983).
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he is the Chief Executive of Camerapix Publishers International. He is married with one son.
DUNCAN WILLETTS An outstanding creative photographer who has been working with Camerapix in Kenya since 1977. Born in England, he worked for two years in Sudan before moving to Kenya where his work has earned him international recognition. His photographs have appeared in many international newspapers and magazines including Time and Newsweek. He is co-author of Journey through Kenya and Journey through Pakistan.
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PETER MARSHALL is a widely-travelled writer. After leaving the Merchant Navy, he took a doctorate and taught philosophy at the University of London. He has written a biography of the philosopher William Godwin as well as literary criticism and poetry. He has lived in Senegal and visited Tanzania many times. His writing about the African continent has appeared in Africa Guide, Africa Report. The Guardian, New Society, New Internationalist, and The Traveller. He has two children and lives in the mountains of North Wales. Vissza