Long acknowledged Africa's greatest photographer-cameraman, Mohamed Amin has been photographing and filming the major events of Africa, Asia and the Middle East since the 1950's. He is also the author and publisher of more than forty high quality illustrated books. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1943, and is chief executive of the Camerapix group of television and publishing companies.

A missionary map of 1848, showing the lands beyond Kilimanjaro as inhabited by Dorobo, describes them as

'a very poor people despised and maltreated by all tribes around'.

a teacher at the International School of Tanganyika in Dar es Salaam since 1977, has long been fascinated by Africa's wildlife and wildplaces. Lancashire born Mercer, who first visited East Africa as a sailor in Britain's Royal Navy, spends his leisure time travelling with his Karachi born wife Anjum through Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

[J.A.Hunter] a young Scotsman, camped in Ngorongoro Crater, as a guide and professional Hunter to two American clients. Whilst in the Crater, Hunter paid a visit to a dilapidated farmhouse on the hillwash of the Crater wall, between the wall itself and the Lerai Forest, and almost directly below the site of the present Crater and Wildlife lodges which stand on the Crater rim.

The neglected farm contained little but a pack of equally neglected Australian Kangaroo hounds. Their master, Captain G.H.R. (George) Hurst, had moved into Ngorongoro as a rancher soon after the First World War, hoping to persuade the Custodian of Enemy Property to let him buy a farm on the far side of the Crater, appropriated from its German owner.

His dream of living out his life in that wild and glorious arena was brought to a very tragic end, for his application for legal ownership was turned down on favour of Sir Charles Ross. Hurst, perhaps to alleviate his disappointment, set off on a hunting safari and was killed by an elephant, on the Tanganyika coast.

One of Africa and Europe's major creative photographers, Duncan Willetts was born in England in 1945. A regular contributor to Time-Life, Newsweek and other major magazines and newspapers around the world, he has collaberated with Mohamed Amin on many books.