Tanzania Wildlife and Safari Guide (Wildlife of Africa)

Acclaimed BBC Wildlife Presenter CHRIS PACKHAM has written the foreword to this much sought after Tanzania Wildlife and Safari Guide.

In an extract from his foreword, he says: This guide provides the perfect introduction to the most frequently encountered creatures and supplements everything about their behaviour and ecologies that you have forgotten from your armchair TV safaris, with a useful overview of their biology. It's accessible, easy to use, concise and had plenty of little nuggets of interest and importance.

This informative and unique guide provides visitors to Tanzania with a level of knowledge and interest that will make your animal sightings more meaningful and authentic. It also serves as a useful handbook for those armchair enthusiasts wanting to develop their knowledge about African wildlife.

The two authors have travelled extensively throughout Tanzania, and have spent five years compiling this guide. A comprehensive 'Insider Tips' section allows the authors to pass on to you the benefit of their extensive knowledge gained over fifteen years of independent travel in East Africa.

With more than two hundred full colour images, this guide is packed with information, variety and interest. Fifty-six of the most popular fauna to be found in Tanzania have their own full section, with further sections on Habitats, Vegetation, National Parks, The Maasai, Translocation, Diseases affecting wildlife, and detailed information on Travel Care and the country of Tanzania.

A key focus of this book is to develop the reader’s awareness of how so many species of wildlife in Tanzania face a threat to their very existence, and a comprehensive and thought provoking section on Endangered Animals makes interesting reading.

Ambassador Dr. Pindi H. Chana, Tanzania Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism:
The Tanzania Wildlife and Safari Guide by Diane and Peter Swan provides an important contribution to our knowledge of wildlife resources in Tanzania and to tourism development. This guide is an invaluable resource to visitors to Tanzania, particularly those visiting our wildlife protected areas. I would like to thank Diane and Peter Swan for promoting Tanzania’s tourism industry through this guide.

Rt Hon Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond (Yorks):
A comprehensive guide to the wildlife of Tanzania, full of interesting facts, wonderful pictures, and so easy to read. (Rishi's mother was born in Tanzania).

Clare Peacock – Costa Foundation and Whitbread Legend Award Winner:
“Although I visited Uganda on behalf of Costa Coffee, for the Costa Foundation, I had never visited Tanzania until after having read the authors’ first book – their Safari Guide for Kenya and Tanzania. During my eventual visit to Tanzania, I was fortunate to witness the wildlife in the Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park – two iconic Tanzania safari locations, and this guide to the wildlife of Tanzania brings back so many amazing memories for me. It is not just the wealth of factual information that impressed me (and so easy to read and understand) it is the inspirational way that the authors talk about the wildlife, about their experiences, and about the effect that Africa can have on you.
The fact that the authors and publishers are donating all their profits to a charity that works with underprivileged children in Tanzania is amazing - this simply doesn't happen nowadays, so I take my hat off to them.
This book does truly portray how beautiful the wildlife of Tanzania is, and the focus on endangered species – highlighted throughout by the authors – provides a wake-up call for us all.
The 200+ pictures – all taken by the authors - add so much to the content of the book.”