Here's a collection of 58 oversize, overpoweringly vivid photographs of African animals by one of the world's leading nature photographers. The tritone plates are so detailed, they look as if you could step through them into another world. Brandt's images — of a herd of zebras crossing a river, or two giraffes contemplating a dust devil, or a pair of rhinoceroses standing head to head on a mudflat — seem to capture wild beasts in a state of profound thought, contemplating their own majesty. — Lev Grossman
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