Currents of Contrast - Life in southern Africa's two oceans.
 Southern Africa’s coast is the meeting place of two ocean giants – the Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean and the Agulhas of the Indian Ocean. They clash fiercely at the continent’s southern tip, dividing the region into two contrasting marine ecosystems that rank among the richest, most biologically diverse and oceanographically complex on the planet.
Photographs appearing in this book were taken specifically for the publication and many feature behaviour never seen or photographed before.
Authors: Thomas Peschak
Photography: Claudio Velásquez Rojas and Thomas Peschak
Struik Publishers, 2005, 200 pages, coffee table book, ISBN 1770070869.
         

Aspects of Life. A Natural History of Southern Africa.
The thirteen-chapter book is a written and visual essay on southern Africa’s impressive natural heritage. Aspects of Life was published in association with an acclaimed television series of the same title in 1996.
Authors: Richard Chambers and Francois Odendaal.
Photography: Claudio Velasquez Rojas.
Struik Publishers, 1996, 144 page, coffee table book, ISBN 1 86825 9293.
   

Last Edens of Africa
This book documents some of Africa’s last wild places, selected for their astonishing biological diversity and relatively pristine nature. The fragility and sheer beauty of the ecosystems explored - some of them home to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world - remind us of a paradise lost. The book brings across the message that, unless human kind embraces the responsibility to protect and manage these precious resources, they will be lost.
Authors: Liz Day & Francois Odendaal.
Photography: Claudio Velasquez Rojas.
Southern Book Publishers, 1998, coffee table book, 134 pages, ISBN 1868127540.

   

Ankaragna, Fomba sy Fady
This is a childrens’ environmental book written in Malagasy. It investigates the links between ancient regional rituals or beliefs and the natural world they grew out of.
Authors: Francois (Odendaal), Phillipe, Blaid and Jean-Pierre.
Photography: Claudio Velasquez Rojas.
Francois Odendaal Productions, 1998, 27 pages.
Funded by WWF Madagascar Programme Office, Maitso Company and EcoAfrica.
   
Rafting the Amazon
This book documents the journeys of the author and his companions down the two furthest and least known of the Amazon’s tributaries, the Urubamba and the Apurimac River and the final leg down the main river to its mouth on the Atlantic. The book became a best seller in the first two weeks of its release in the United Kingdom.
Authors: Francois Odendaal.
Photography: Francois Odendaal.
BBC Books, 1992, non-fiction, 296 pages, ISBN 056336386X.