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Michael Brett is a writer, cartographer and photographer who is happiest when he is seated around a campfire in one of Africa’s many splendid protected areas. An expert on conservation and tourism, he served for two years as an ecotourism advisor in the highlands of Lesotho. He is the author of 13 books on national parks and travel in South Africa, Kenya and the USA.

Brett is employed as a senior lecturer in the tourism department at a tertiary college in Johannesburg and spends college holidays either travelling through South Africa and neighbouring countries, or ‘filling in the grey bits between the photos’ on various writing assignments.