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