ncluding South Africa， Tanzania， Uganda， Kenya， Ethiopia， Malawi，
Mozambique， Ghana， and， most recently， Senegal， he also contribute
:egularly to a number of leading South African and British wildlife
periodicals. His encyclopedic knowledge of Africa is reflected in the range
of destinations he covered in this book， from the Zululand Reserves in
South Africa to Bale National Park in Ethiopia.
South African born and bred， Melissa de Villiers wrote about Kruger
National Park. She traces her love of the bush back to family holidays.
\"Like many South Africans， I got my first taste of the bush at about age
five on a family trip to Kruger. Although I ve been back many times since
it s never lost its magic.\" De Villiers first job in journalism was producing
an anti-apartheid newspaper for a township civic group. Now living in
London， she writes for a range of national newspapers and magazines，
has edited and written several guidebooks， including Insight Guides to
South Africa and Namibia， and has been editing a travel website.
An institution in travel publishing， both as a writer and publisher of the
groundbreaking Bradt Travel Guides， Hilary Bradt has an ongoing love
affair with Madagascar. Since her first visit in 1976， she has returned
more than 20 times as a tour leader and an author， writing four books
about the island - and the Madagascar chapter of this book.
David Else has been working and traveling in Africa since the early
1980s， crossing the continent several times by every conceivable form
of transport. Along the way he has written numerous guides for Bradt
Publications and Lonely Planet. Just home after several months in
Malawi， he was the ideal choice to write the Malawi chapter of this book
Among writer and photographer Nick Hanna s many guidebooks are th~
highly acclaimed Greenpeace Book of Coral Reefs (with Sue Wells as
coauthor) and a guide to beaches， snorkeling， and scuba diving in 22
countries. He is also consultant on the best-selling diving guides，
Dive Sites of the World， which he helped develop， and has written
extensively on sport diving and the marine environment for.the
international press. He writes here on diving in the Red Sea.
Born in Kenya， writer and photographer Claire Foottit has specialized
in African tourism， land use， and environmental issues since 1991. ~ :
She is keen to portray the positive aspects of a much-maligned
continent and is particularly interested in the role tourism can
play in conservation. Foottit was given the difficult task of summing
up the many reserves that， through lack of space or difficulty of access，
did not make it into the main body of the book.
Finally， and crucially， the authors would like to thank the following peopl
and organizations for their generous hospitality and expertise during the
writing of this book: Chris Mclntyre of Sunvil; the World Conservation
Monitoring Centre; the Environmental Investigation Agency; Lee Vincen
of the KwaZulu-Natal Conservation Authority; South African Airways;
Wilderness Safaris; CC Africa; Bill Adams of Safari Consultants Ltd;
Nigel Crofton of Outposts; UTC; Retosa; Moremi Safaris; Air Botswana;
Afroventures; Tafika Lodge， Zambia; Kapani Lodge， Zambia; Ghost
MnHnt~inlnn qnuth Afrir~ Th~nk~l~ntn ludith DLJnham nnd GMn
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