The Prime Origins Guide to Exploring Kruger by Brett Hilton-Barber & Professor Lee R Berger

The Prime Origins Guide to Exploring Kruger (Illustrated Kruger Guide, Owner-Inscribed Copy)

A Richly Illustrated Visitor's Guide to Planning and Tailoring a Trip to Kruger National Park

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: The Prime Origins Guide to Exploring Kruger: Your Key to Unlocking Africa's Wildlife Treasure
• Authors: Brett Hilton-Barber & Professor Lee R Berger
• Editor: Margaret de Paravicini
• Publisher: Prime Origins (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
• Publication Date: 2004
• ISBN-13: 9781919855370
• ISBN-10: 1919855378
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated card wrappers, perfect bound, with a photographic leopard cover.
• Physical Format: Medium to large softcover, approximately A5, 148 pages. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Wraps: The illustrated card wrappers with the leopard-face photograph show light wear and creasing to the edges and corners, front and back. The spine is intact, with slight wear at the head. A bookshop price sticker on the back cover is chipped and creased.
• Interior: The title page is clean, with no foxing or marks apart from an owner's inscription in blue ink. The binding is tight.
• Provenance: Owner's name and email address handwritten in blue ink at the top of the title page. A bookshop price sticker on the back cover reads 'PRIME REGIONS GDE', 'EB The Zone 11/05', 133.00.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

The Prime Origins Guide to Exploring Kruger, subtitled Your Key to Unlocking Africa's Wildlife Treasure, is a practical guide to Kruger National Park, published in Cape Town by Prime Origins. It helps visitors plan and tailor their trip, whether they hope to see as many animals as possible or to find solitude in the bush.

The guide is richly illustrated with colour photographs and indexed by subjects such as wildlife, trees, rivers, roads and camps. It also draws attention to sites of archaeological interest in areas once occupied by humans, giving the park a deeper human context than the usual game-viewing handbook.

Signed by a previous owner and carrying its original bookshop sticker, this is a useful, honestly worn copy of a Kruger reference from the mid-2000s, suited to Kruger enthusiasts and collectors of South African wildlife and travel titles.

Author Profile: Brett Hilton-Barber & Professor Lee R. Berger

Lee R. Berger is a palaeoanthropologist and Research Professor in Human Evolution and the Public Understanding of Science at the Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand. His honours include the Friedel Sellschop Award for Young Researchers, the Golden Plate of the Academy of Achievement and the National Geographic Society's first Prize for Research and Exploration. His other books include Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi, written with John Hawks, and Cave of Bones.

Brett Hilton-Barber is a South African author and publisher whose other titles include Field Guide to the Cradle of Humankind, In the Footsteps of Eve and a birding guide to Kruger.

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