Cry of the Kalahari / Mark and Delia Owens.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0395322146
- 9780395322147
- 0395647800
- 9780395647806
- 0395394139
- 9780395394137
- John Burroughs Medal, 1985
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Main Library | NonFiction | 591.9681 O97 | Available | 33111010450316 |
Maps on lining papers by Lorraine Sneed; other maps by Larry A. Peters.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index.
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.
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.
John Burroughs Medal, 1985