OWENS, Mark and Delia.
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness.
Mark and Delia Owens' Cry of the Kalahari; Inscribed by Both
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
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First edition, early printing of this classic work, which ranks with "Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist" (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers by Lorraine Sneed, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the title page, "To Jo Best wishes always Delia Owens" and signed by Mark Owens. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
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 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.
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness.
$375.00
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