A cinematic exploration of Africa’s wild beauty — told through powerful images and the lived experience of a photographer who spent a year alone in the bush.
Eden – Soul of Africa is Armand Grobler’s extraordinary tribute to wilderness — a story of solitude, survival, connection, and the ancient heartbeat of the African landscape.
Created over a full year living alone in Botswana’s Okavango and Kalahari, this book blends world-class wildlife photography with powerful wilderness writing.
This is not just a photographic book. It is an experience.
There are books about Africa — and then there are books that feel like Africa.
Eden – Soul of Africa is a deeply immersive journey into the wildest places on Earth: the serpentine rivers of the Okavango Delta, the oceanic sands of the Kalahari Desert, and the ancient rain-sculpted landscapes where elephants, lions, hyenas and buffalo still rule without apology.
For twelve months, photographer and author Armand Grobler lived alone in this untamed world.
No fences. No comforts. No separation between man and nature. The result is an intimate, visceral portrayal of Africa.
Through Armand’s lens and writing, you enter a place where time slows, imagination awakens, and the land speaks in the ancient language of spirit and memory.
This is Eden — not the mythical paradise, but the real one.
The one that still exists.
The one worth protecting.
The one that lives inside us all.
WHAT’S INSIDE THE BOOK
Inspired directly by the journey:
• Foreword by Hannes Lochner
• Welcome to Eden – The essence of Africa
• River of Dreams – The Okavango Delta
• Desert Oasis – The Kalahari
• Land of Giants – Elephants, buffalo and the architects of Africa
• Vanishing Africa – The fragility and loss of wilderness
• Exploring Eden – A photographer’s intimate encounters
Over 200 pages of cinematic wildlife photography.
45,000+ words of storytelling, philosophy, natural history & personal narrative.
Photography created entirely in wild conditions:
hyenas at night, elephants in drought, lions stalking rivers, crocodiles emerging beneath flooded reeds, and the haunting elegance of Africa’s last great wild places.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ARMAND GROBLER
Armand Grobler is an award-winning wildlife photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on intimate wildlife behaviour and the emotional narrative of wild Africa.
Armand lived alone in the Okavango Delta while creating EDEN, forming relationships with lions, hyenas, wild dogs, elephants, and even a solitary buffalo bull named “Os.”
His unique blend of scientific understanding, poetic storytelling, and raw emotional honesty sets him apart as one of Africa’s most compelling new wildlife voices.
