奥卡万戈与生命源泉：探索非洲失落的上游 Okavango and the Source of Life

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ National Geographic

Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1426224079

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1426224072

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.2 x 1.05 x 10.16 inches

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书籍简介

精美的照片、详尽的地图和感人至深的个人叙述，讲述了前往非洲著名奥卡万戈三角洲源头的艰苦探险之旅，这里是生物多样性的圣地。

探险家们发现了安哥拉“幽灵象”的踪迹——这些象群在数十年的内战后被认为已经灭绝，但如今却在高原荒野中重现踪迹。

跟随勇敢的探险家史蒂夫·博伊斯，他带领着国家地理奥卡万戈荒野项目，记录着鲜为人知的湖泊和河流，它们流经中非，汇入广袤的奥卡万戈三角洲。这片区域不仅养育着世界上数量最多的象群，还栖息着狮子、猎豹和数百种鸟类。

在绵延数英里的蜿蜒水道和遍布水蛭的沼泽中，博伊斯和他的探险伙伴们撑着平底船，仅凭卫星图像和河马的踪迹指引方向。有时，他们不得不拖着船穿过茂密的灌木丛或泥泞的水域。一头愤怒的河马威胁要掀翻商队；成群的蜜蜂俯冲而下，叮咬探险者的耳朵和睫毛。在被战火封锁数十年的安哥拉，探险队追踪着幽灵象——一个人们一度认为已经永远消失的亚种。

白天，他们继续前行；夜晚，他们在星空下露营。远处传来狮吼和鬣狗的嚎叫。当地人成了朋友和旅伴——他们是河流的守护者，分享着世代相传的关于这些被他们称为“生命之源”的河流的知识。

这本精美的书籍收录了100多张照片和地图，包括哈里王子的序言和当地智慧守护者的肖像，展现了地球上依然生机勃勃的原始荒野，以及决心保护它的探险家们的坚韧不拔。

Gorgeous photos, detailed maps, and a moving personal narrative narrate grueling expeditions to the source of Africa’s famous Okavango Delta, a sanctuary of biodiversity.

Explorers discover signs of Angola's ghost elephants—presumed extinct after decades of civil war but now reappearing in the highlands wilderness.

Follow intrepid explorer Steve Boyes as he leads the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, documenting the little-known lakes and rivers flowing through central Africa to the vast Okavango, a region supporting the world’s largest elephant population as well as lions, cheetahs, and hundreds of bird species.

For miles on end of twisting waterways and leech-filled swamps, Boyes and his fellow explorers pole their flatboats with only satellite imagery and hippo trails to guide them. Sometimes they must drag their boats through dense bush or mud-thick waters. An angry hippo threatens to overturn the caravan; swarms of bees dive-bomb explorers’ ears and eyelashes. In Angola, closed off by war for decades, the team tracks ghost elephants—a subspecies thought to have disappeared forever.

By day they press on, by night they camp under the stars. Lions roar and hyenas howl in the distance. Locals become friends and fellow travelers—guardians of the rivers, sharing generational knowledge of these waters they call the “source of life.”

With more than 100 photographs and maps, including a foreword by Prince Harry and portraits of local wisdom keepers, this beautiful book provides a glimpse of primeval wilderness still thriving on the planet—and the grit of explorers determined to preserve it.

作者简介

史蒂夫·博伊斯是一位生物学家和生态学家，也是国家地理学会会员、TED高级研究员，以及历时十年的奥卡万戈荒野项目的策划者和负责人。作为第七代南非人，他同时也是野生鸟类信托基金的科学主任，该基金源于他早期对开普鹦鹉的研究和保护工作。他每年都会花费大量时间进行考察，并前往非洲各地及其他地区，致力于提高人们对中非野生动物和水域保护的认识，并争取各方支持。他和妻子儿女居住在南非帕尔。

STEVE BOYES is a biologist and ecologist, a National Geographic Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, and the mastermind and director of the decade-long Okavango Wilderness Project. A seventh-generation South African, he is also the scientific director of the Wild Bird Trust, which grew out of his early work studying and protecting the Cape parrot. He spends large portions of each year on expedition, and also travels throughout Africa and elsewhere to raise awareness and support on behalf of the wildlife and waterways of central Africa. He lives with his wife and children in Paarl, South Africa.