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Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

8 best books like Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (Lawrence Anthony): Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Cry of the Kalahari, The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives, The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming, Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos, Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa, The Boy From The Wild

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN0762745657
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!”

In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush,...
Cry of the Kalahari
AuthorMark Owens
ISBN0618711880
Oh, to be Mark and Delia and lie under the clear sky with only lions for company. That is the stuff of dreams for an animal lover. I feel privileged to have been taken by the authors to Botswana Kalahari and given a glimpse of the rare world out there, so inaccessible to most of us. So for that, thank you, Mark...
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
AuthorKobie Krüger
ISBN0345444264
Everyone warned Kobie Krüger that being the wife of a game warden at a remote ranger station in South Africa's largest national park would be an arduous move. The heat was unbearable, malaria would be a constant danger, her husband would have to be away for long stretches, there were no schools or nearby...
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
AuthorThomas French
ISBN1401323464
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for...
The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming
AuthorShreve Stockton
ISBN1416592180

Great unknowns were out there to be seen, felt, experienced; this was what life meant to me, this was what life was for.

I loved this book. Loved, loved, loved it. There.

Telling the story of a surviving coyote pup who is adopted by a woman looking for her own life's adventure, this...
Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN1599214695
I got a little mixed up and read Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos before Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide. But I get the sense it didn't matter very much which order you read them in, in much...
Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa
AuthorTony Fitzjohn
ISBN0307716031
Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards...
The Boy From The Wild
AuthorPeter Meyer
An Adventure story never told, until now.

Peter Meyer grew up on an African game reserve. His idyllic childhood was spent running wild in the bush with Zulu friends and other free spirits.

His adventures in the wilderness honed his character, nurtured by an inspirational father who...
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