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Cry of the Kalahari / Mark and Delia Owens.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984.Description: viii, 341 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395322146
  • 9780395322147
  • 0395647800
  • 9780395647806
  • 0395394139
  • 9780395394137
Subject(s):
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.
Awards:
  • John Burroughs Medal, 1985
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 591.9681 O97 Available 33111010450316
Total holds: 0

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

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