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east through about a dozen countries of east-central Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi and others. In the north is passes through some of the hottest (135° Farenheit in the summer), most inhospitable climate on the planet.
The outline of the rift can be more or less followed by tracing the line formed by a series of elongated lakes both north and south of Lake Victoria.
The photographer said getting the photos he needed could be dangerous. The Afar tribesmen of the northern desert can be a violent, severe people, and the climatic differences over the length of the rift were radical. “You learn to be careftil. You come to the environment over there on the environment’s terms. . . . People die out there all the time; they have car trouble, all kinds of things can happen.”
Mr. Johns wrote the five chapters of the book and took all 112 hill-color photographs. The introduction was penned by Patrick Hemingway, son of the great novelist.
The Charlottesville publishing house of Thomasson-Grant took a look at some of Mr. Johns’ prints and “right there said they wanted to do the book,” he
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