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German-born Michael Poliza, aphotographer and former entre-preneur has produced what isprobably the most muscular cof-fee table book ever, it weighs astaggering five kilograms andtakes some effort to pick up. But once you do, it's worth its weight in gold.The story of Eyes over Africa began with awhimsical fantasy dreamt up by another Ger-man businessman, Stefan Breuer, who had avision of a trans-continental helicopter flightbeginning inEurope thatwould traverseAfricaand end up in South Africa; taking photo- graphs along the way. As fate would have it,one whimsical German bumped into another,and when Breuer bounced his rather nuttyidea off Poliza, he found a kindred spirit im-bued with just the right kind of derring-doand eye for beauty needed tomake the dreama reality.

A PHOTOGRAPHICFEAST OF AFRICAMichael Poliza's `Eyes over Africa' is a sumptuous feast of a book that reveals Africa's spectacularbeauty from a very different perspective, writes GAIL SMITH

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