Name: cry of the kalahari
Price: 20.45 EUR
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Author: Delia Owens
ISBN: 9780395647806

Type

Physical Book

Author

Delia Owens

Mark Owens

Publisher

Mariner Books

Language

English

Pages

341

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0395647800

ISBN13

9780395647806

Synopsis "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, 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.

Delia Owens

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Delia Owens (Americus, Georgia, United States, 1949) trained as a zoologist and ethologist. She grew up in Thomasville and earned a degree in Zoology at the University of Georgia. In 1974, with her then-husband, Mark Owens, she moved to Africa to work first in Botswana (Central Kalahari Reserve, and from those studies obtained a PhD in Ethology at the University of California) and later in Zambia. After spending twenty-three years in Africa, she moved to a ranch in Idaho, in the northwest of the United States. After writing several scientific essays (Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, Secrets of the Savanna), she set out to write a novel. Thus was born Where the Crawdads Sing, published in the United States in August 2018. At seventy, it has been a record-breaking narrative debut: it has spent several months in the top position of the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than three million copies, and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

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