A PUBLIC TALK AT KAREN BLIXEN
ON
MAMMALS OF AFRICA
by Jonathan Kingdon of Oxford University
FOR THE FIRST TIME, EVER, OVER 350 SCIENTISTS HAVE COLLABORATED TO PUBLISH AN INVENTORY OF AFRICA'S MOST FAMOUS NATURAL RESOURCE - ITS MAMMALS.
NO OTHER CONTINENT CAN BOAST OF A SCIENTIFIC WORK TO COMPARE WITH "MAMMALS OF AFRICA".
THE TEXTS, MAPS AND VISUAL DOCUMENTATION COVER AN AREA OF OVER 30 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETERS, EMBRACING MORE THAN FORTY NATIONS IN THE CONTINENT.
THE FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN POLYMATH, TIM FLANNERY SAYS, "MAMMALS OF AFRICA, REPRESENTS A HIGH-WATER MARK - NOT JUST IN MAMMALOGY, BUT IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING OVERALL"
COME AND HEAR MORE ABOUT IT AT KAREN BLIXEN MUSEUM LOCATED AT OFF NGONGE ROAD, ON LANGATA ROAD, WHERE JONATHAN KINGDON, THE BOOK’S CHIEF EDITOR AND PROFESSOR AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY, WILL BE SPEAKING AT 5-6PM ON FRIDAY 28TH JUNE 2013"