THE FIRST SAFARI, Searching for Francois Levaillant

232pp., colour illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Jacana, Johannesburg, (2018)2026

ISBN: 9781431428298

Ian Glenn writes about his thirty years of research into the life and times of French author, explorer, naturalist, zoological collector and ornithologist François Levaillant (1753-1824).

This revised edition includes a new preface and new information, particularly on the Bloubok, the staues of the map, and Levaillant's descendants.

Ian Glenn has edited and co-translated an English translation of Levaillant's Travels into the Interior of Africa for the Van Riebeeck Society and co-authored the Brenthurst Press edition of François Levaillant and the Birds of Africa. His most recent book is From East to South: Wildlife documentaries in Southern Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Media Studies at the Univeristy of Cape Town and a research associate at the University of the Free State.