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| | A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE FROGS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
By Louis Du Preez and Vincent Carrutherbr />488 pages and CD of calls.
This beautiful and authoritative book is the most comprehensive treatment of frogs of the region ever produced.
A Complete Guide to the Frogs of Southern Africa covers frog and tadpole biology and behaviour. All 160 frog species (with their tadpole stages) are fully desbed, giving conservation status, calls, habitat and habits.
To aid identification, there are large, full-colour images of each species, detailed keys and clear summary Calls for most species are recorded on the accompanying CD, and spectrograms are provided, offering the surest method of identifying these secretive and often cryptic creatures.
For all nature lovers, amateur 'froggers', students, as well as professional scientists, this is an inspiring and significant guide.
FGASA PRICE R250.00 (Excluding postage)
| NEW FGASA BACKPACK FIRST AID KITS
Good quality first aid backpacks with:
1. Comfortable straps
2. Waist strap with clip
3. Small handle at the top of the bag
4. Large insulated water bottle pocket for two bottles
5. Spare pocket for anything you like
6. Map pocket which also holds the waterproof cover
7. Six colour-coded pockets with windows containing the contents
8. Velcro stips to hold pockets for contents
FGASA's Price R845.00 (Including Vat)
| | Game ranger in your Backpack
Text by Megan Emmett
Photographs by Sean Pattrick
352 pages / Soft cover
Game Ranger in your Backpack is not a conventional field guide in the sense that it will not provide reams of dreary detail on how to identify a particular plant or bird (although it does offer useful pointers of features to look out for). Rather, this book is intended to substitute the presence of a personal guide or ‘game ranger’ during visits to the Lowveld region of South Africa. It makes the practical, interpretative information on the most commonly encountered species in the Lowveld, accessible at a glance and eliminates the need to have several different books piled on the seat beside you. Game Ranger in your
Backpack is a compact com
• It teaches people how to observe, identify and interpret what they see in the bush in a meaningful way, without having to wade through the reams of technical information found in most other field guides.
• The reader-friendly mind-map layout of the book, with pictures linked to brief but informative text boxes, makes pertinent information accessible at a glance.
• Other features include colour-coded chapters for ease of reference, while blocked information and icons in the mammals and trees sections provide technical details in a concise form.
• Hundreds of stunning interpretative images, highlighted keywords and a flowchart structure to each spread direct the eye to the different topics on each featured species, allowing the reader to pick out whatever is of interest to him or her.
• Game Ranger in your Backpack is an essential com
FGASA's Price R245.00
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