Parque Nacional da Gorongosa Moçambique

We are proud to announce that the beautiful and historic book, Drawn from the Plains:  Life in the Wilds of Namibia and Moçambique has been republished (in English) and is available for sale from major online booksellers in various countries.

First published in 1979, Drawn from the Plains is Lynne Tinley’s account of her family’s life in Etosha Pan, Namibia and Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The author’s husband Ken Tinley was Ecologist for national parks in Mozambique from 1968 to 1974.  He and his family were based at Gorongosa National Park, where Lynne and their children helped him document and work to protect its bounty and richness.  This captivating true story of the fight to preserve African parks, to raise a family, and to simply survive is beautifully woven and illustrated by the author.

“Drawn from the Plains: Life in the Wilds of Namibia and Moçambique”
by: Lynne Tinley

“Drawn from the Plains” is currently available for sale in various countries including:

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This book will be available at the Gorongosa National Park gift shop soon.

About the Book
Lynne Tinley and her husband Ken, who is one of the leading ecologists in Africa, have devoted many years to a race against time. On the Etosha Pan, in the isolated and spectacular wildernesses of Namibia, and later on the other side of the continent at Gorongosa in Moçambique, they set out to gather information which was urgently needed if the natural ecological balances of these and other African parks and reserves were to be preserved.

Living in the wilderness they discovered a wealth of wonders. Sketching this far-off world of risk and hardship in words and pictures Lynne conveys images of great beauty, controversial biology, anthropology and veld humour.  Moreover she provides a vivid and entertaining account of how to raise a boy and girl in the bush. Together the family survives terrorist raids, charging hippo, elephant and lion, rabid dog bites, baboon spiders, gaboon vipers, acid-shooting beetles, alcoholic snails, dangling camel membranes, and the Fat Mouse.  They eat elephant trunk Portuguese-style and termites cooked by bushmen. 

From Otjovasandu—“The place where the elephants come through”—to the wind-swept desert pan at Okaukuejo, to the Cheringoma Plateau, through burning midday mirage and freezing lion-roaring, baboon-sobbing nights, with great sensitivity and fatalism, and an eye for the peculiarities of those who live to survive in the outer reaches, Lynne Tinley records an incredible, fast-moving period of human and animal history. 

Peter Beard
Long Island, New York
(Written at Nahoon River Mouth, South Africa, in 1979)

About the Author
Lynne Tinley and her family are now living in Western Australia. She and Ken have spent many years exploring and working in the arid outback of this vast land. Lynne has become well known for her landscape and wildlife paintings, some of which can be seen on her website www.lynnetinley.com.