In Search of the African Lion, published in 2012 as a glossy coffee-table book, is a fascinating tale about these magnificent cats, their biology, relationship with humans, and the sad tale of the reduction in wild lion populations in Africa from some 450 000, 50 years ago to just 23 000 today.
This year, the renowned freelance photographer and author team combined their years of immersion in the life of the African lion, with the African Storybook unit of immedia, a Durban-based post-PC digital studio, to bring this beautiful product to Apple’s iBooks platform. Enhanced with real-life sound, video and flowing text that is unrestricted by the printed page, Roger and Pat’s story comes to life on your iPad.
Find out more about In Search of the African Lion for iBooks, and watch Africa Imagery’s iBook Launch and App Cake celebration here.
Angus is serious about his craft. A CNN award-winning television producer, he was the first South African broadcast journalist to report from the chaos of Somalia in 1992.
He went on to cover the Rwandan genocide of '94 and South Africa's first democratic elections the same year, for which he was nominated for the national public service radio awards.
It was these episodes in Somalia and Rwanda that took him the roundabout route to the fields of travel and environment, in which he now writes, produces and photographs.