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Cry of the Kalahari / Mark and Delia Owens.

Owens, Mark, 1944- (author.). Owens, Delia, (author.).

Summary:

This account of the authors' seven-year stay in Africa's Kalahari wilderness covers their adventures of survival, their contact with curious and dangerous animals, and the establishment of their conservation research project.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0395322146
  • ISBN: 0395647800
  • ISBN: 9780395647806
  • Physical Description: 341 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1992]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Mariner book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Jumblies -- Water -- Fire -- Cry of the Kalahari -- Star -- Camp -- Maun: African frontier -- Bones -- Carnivore rivalry -- Lions in the rain -- Van der Westhuizen story -- Return to deception -- Gone from the valley -- Trophy shed -- Echo whisky golf -- Kalahari gypsies -- Gypsy cub -- Lions with no pride -- Dust of my friend -- School for scavengers -- Pepper -- Muffin -- Uranium -- Blue -- Black pearls in the desert -- Kalahari high.
Awards Note:
John Burroughs Medal, 1985.
Subject: Owens, Delia.
Owens, Mark, 1944-
Animals > Botswana.
Animals > Kalahari Desert.
Wildlife conservationists > United States > Biography.
Zoologists > United States > Biography.
Zoology > Botswana.
Zoology > Kalahari Desert.
Kalahari Desert > Description and travel.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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