The world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants, Africa offers a diversity of culture and landscape rarely seen elsewhere. Divided into five chapters by region, is a sumptuous introduction to this most vibrant of continents. Be amazed at the spectacular Victoria Falls, which is the world’s largest sheet of falling water from a height of 354 feet; explore the Congo River, second largest in the world by volume, as it snakes through the ancient forests of Central Africa; enjoy the view from Table Mountain, across Cape Town to the Lion’s Head and the South Atlantic; experience the diversity of creatures in the Serengeti National Park, including herds of wild elephants and Cape Buffalo, as well as their primary predators, lions and leopards; and marvel at the 13th-century Djenné Mosque in Mali, made from wooden scaffolding and clay.