Title:
Cry of the Kalahari / Mark and Delia Owens.
ISBN:
9780395322147
9780395647806
9780395394137
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Physical Description:
viii, 341 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
Maps on lining papers by Lorraine Sneed; other maps by Larry A. Peters.
Awards Note:
John Burroughs Medal, 1985
Contents:
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.
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.
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Added Author:
OCLC Number:
ocm10780404
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
