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With the five year funding project for Afrikeye coming to an end in early 2005, Alex Barrett, the editor of Afrikeye moved on to a new project. The plan was to spend two years based in Zambia to make a photographic, and anecdotal study of the cycle of the seasons and their impact on the environment, landscape, wildlife and rural communities in this unique part of the African continent. In October 2004, Alex found a perfect location to set up a little base camp
in the African bush on the northern bank of the Zambezi river close to the
western edge of the Lower Zambezi National Park. In the pages below, Alex invites you to follow the progress as he takes the project from its conception to completion. Hopefully taking the nature of a journal, though this could change as time passes, Alex will add new pictures and update details of his progress or otherwise on an irregular but, hopefully, fairly frequent basis. Please follow the links on the left to see what he has been up to lately or read extracts from the book itself. |
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Alex immediately marked the
unnamed location on his GPS unit which automatically named it "Waypoint Z16" and
for a long while this stood as the project's de facto title. Soon after he
started writing, the dinner conversation at one of the lodges was recounted to
him by an ex-pat guide. It was closely related to the subject of the book and brilliantly
highlighted some of the conflicts in the conservation industry. Suffice to say
for now that the conversation led to the book's working title "Honey Badgers
Brew Beer".