Eagles of Africa

Author Biography

Johann Knobel, the author and photographer, has has an abiding interest in eagles from boyhood, Since 1991 his main photographic focus has been to capture the spirit of the eagles in Africa. He has watched and photographed eagles in Southern and East Africa, the Middle East, and North America. Johann is a co-author to the Magnificent Natural Heritage of South Africa (Sunbird Publishers 1994). Alan Kemp, internationally recognised raptor expert and co-author with his wife Meg of The Birds of Prey of Africa and its Islands (New Holland 1988), acted as specialist ornithological consultant. Peter Steyn, pioneer of African eagle research and well-known author of Eagle Days (Purnell 1973), The Brids of Prey of Southern Africa (David Philip 1982) and Hunters of the African Sky (Struik Winchester 1990), contributed a foreward.