Cry of the Kalahari
'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago Tribune
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owenses began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.
An international bestseller on original release, Cry of the Kalahari is the story of the Owenses's life with lions, brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes, and the many other creatures they came to know. It is also a gripping account of how they survived the dangers of living in one of the last and largest pristine areas on Earth.
Review
Extraordinary... How the couple overcame the hazards of the desert and came to appreciate its living richness makes fascinating reading... Read their remarkable book to be delighted, moved and awed ― People Magazine
Leaps off the page and sweeps you away ― Los Angeles Times
Splendid...If [the Owenses's] survival is a wonder, so is their book - stirring, heartening and elegiac all at once ― Newsweek
One of the best testimonials to the perseverance, idealism and general spunk of passionate animal students ― Washington Post
Mark and Delia Owens's simple human passion and dedication are invigorating. This is a remarkable and important story ― Barry Lopez
Book Description
About the Author
Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa including Cry of the Kalahari.
She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and many others.
She currently lives in Idaho. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.
Podrobnosti
| Autor |
Delia Owens Mark Owens Ben Fogle |
|---|---|
| Vydavatel |
Corsair |
| Jazyk | anglicky |
| Vazba | měkká |
| Počet stran | 480 |
| Formát | 15,2 × 23,2 cm |
| EAN | 9781472156471 |
| Rok vydání | 2021 |
| Edice |
Biografie, memoáry, osobnosti Cestování, sport, outdoorové aktivity Příroda a přírodní vědy |
Autor
Delia Owens
Další knihy autora z oddělení Cizojazyčné knihy
Mark Owens
Ben Fogle
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