African Mammals : Kingdon Pocket Guide

by Jonathan Kingdon

The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals is the standard identification guide to all African land mammals. This new pocket guide is an adaptation of the original into a standard field-guide format. The greatly condensed text focuses on essential information such as identification and distribution, while the author's superb illustrations have been rearranged into an easy-to-use plate format and placed opposite the text. Complex and more obscure groups like the bats and certain rodent families are summarised by genera. This is a practical, lightweight guide, ideal for use in the field and more suitable than the original for the lay person and tourist on safari. "Excellent, comprehensive field guide so you can tell your puku from your lechwe." BBC Wildlife

Genres: Reference, Nature, Africa, Science

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2004

About the author

Jonathan Kingdon is a zoologist, science author, and artist; a research associate at the University of Oxford. He focuses on taxonomic illustration and evolution of the mammals of Africa. He is a contributor to The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.

Reviews

[CathyMW · Rating 3 out of 5]

My one big complaint with this book is the maps. Instead of showing the entire continent, it often showed just a small portion--without any labeling. This made it very difficult to figure out the animal's range.