Cry of the Kalahari

Author

Mark Owens

Call Number

• 591.96 O977 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1984]

Physical Description

viii, 341 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

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.

Notes

"A Mariner book."

Maps on lining papers by Lorraine Sneed; other maps by Larry A. Peters.

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.