Book Description
Seventy-five stunning color photographs have been added as well as an epilogue by the author.
Author : Laurens Van der Post
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Seventy-five stunning color photographs have been added as well as an epilogue by the author.
Author : Laurens Van der Post
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen of South Africa.
Author : Jessica Khoury
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0698151046
Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret… But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate. But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she’s ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion’s silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area—and eliminate life as they know it. In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.
Author : G Antonio Farini
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781498173162
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.
Author : M. G. L. Mills
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770098119
In this fascinating account of scientific study among forbidding wilderness, a husband-and-wife team describe their trek to the Kalahari to study the little-known brown hyena. The details of the scientific inquiry are provided while the daily challenges of living with children 420 kilometers from the nearest town are described. Despite the hardships, the couple becomes so enchanted by these intelligent animals that they stay for 12 years, documenting many hyena clans and observing behavior only a handful of people have ever seen.
Author : Jonathan Laverick
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0750964596
On 4 October 1943, two trainee RAF pilots, Walter Adamson and Gordon Edwards, took off from Kumalo in Zimbabwe. Some time later they were forced to land in Botswana. They climbed out unscathed, left a note, and disappeared. What happened next would entail ethno-archaeological investigation, a sensational murder trial with worldwide media coverage – and an astonishing outcome – that led to a profound change in the lives of the Tyua Bush people. The airmen had been murdered by bullet and axe – but why? Twai Twai Molele, the leader of the group of eight killers charged, was known to be a witchdoctor and a bottle allegedly containing human fat was found in his possession ... Following the trial the Tyuas' guns were confiscated and their ageless, nomadic hunting life began to die out. The murders offered an excuse for British-protected cattle farmers to remove them from their lands. Reopening this extraordinary case, Jonathan Laverick reviews the evidence to uncover the true story.
Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1407073214
Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot and take a look, please? Venture to the Interior is the account of that journey, a journey filled with adventure and discovery, flying from London across Europe and Africa, and after days in small aircraft, on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of central Africa.
Author : Laurens Van der Post
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156301985
For Nonnie and Francois, both on the brink of adulthood, a thousand-mile trip across Africa's Kalahari Desert becomes a pilgrimage of self-discovery.
Author : Ilisa Barbash
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0873654099
Where the Roads All End tells the remarkable story of an American family’s expeditions to the Kalahari Desert in the 1950s. Raytheon founder Laurence Marshall and his family recorded the lives of the last remaining hunter-gatherers, the so-called Bushmen, in what is now recognized as one of the most important anthropology ventures in Africa.
Author : Tim Clutton-Brock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0297857975
The life of the Meerkats - from the highly successful TV series, and soon to be released major feature film MEERKAT MANOR is the true-life story of Flower, the heroine of the successful television series, and the dominant female of Whiskers group. Through words and superb photographs, the reader becomes closely involved in the life-or-death struggles, just like a soap opera, of this curiously attractive tribe. MEERKAT MANOR not only describes what meerkats do, but explains why they do it, providing important insights into the working of other animal societies, including humans. 'They look cute and their teamwork has led some to suggest they are ideal role models for humans, but ... if MEERKAT MANOR is billed as a soap opera, it is one scripted by Quentin Tarantino' Mail on Sunday.