Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
10 best books like Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos (Peter Allison): Elephant Dance, Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, Soul of a Lion: One Woman's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife Refugees, The Harmless People, The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
| Author | Tammie Matson |
| ISBN | 1405039191 |
It's the middle of the night in the Namibian desert when zoologist Tammie Matson wakes with a start to find two elephants standing beside her tiny tent. She makes a promise: "If you just let me survive tonight I will give up Africa. I'll give it all up. Just don't let them stand on me."
It's not a promise...
| Author | Mark Owens |
| ISBN | 0618711880 |
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 Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
| Author | Delia Owens |
| ISBN | 0395680905 |
I really wanted to love this book. I tried. The information and the story of what these two conservationists have done is amazing, however the overly flowery descriptions and romanticized views of Africa almost drowned out the reason for the book. In North Lunagwa National Park in Zambia the elephants...
| Author | Barbara Bennett |
| ISBN | 1426206542 |
For animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, and the vast readership for gripping true-life stories, this African saga is a must-read adventure. It chronicles the unique Harnas Wildlife Foundation in Namibia, where Marieta van der Merwe and her family, former wealthy cattle farmers, have sold land...
| Author | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account...
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
| Author | Kobie Krüger |
| ISBN | 0345444264 |
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...
| Author | Peter Laufer |
| ISBN | 1599219263 |
In this book, author Peter Laufer investigates the breeding and keeping of exotic pets, the problems with doing so, and legislation to prevent people from owning these animals.
He focuses primarily on great apes (chimpanzees and monkeys), big cats (mostly lions and tigers, but also briefly...
Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
| Author | Cynthia Moss |
| ISBN | 0226542378 |
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia,...
| Author | Caitlin O'Connell |
| ISBN | 0743284410 |
This book was not all I hoped for. Although the description of the author's life and how she studies the animals is quite interesting, the manner in which she told the story lost me. I thought in the beginning it was going to be a clear goal - discovering new information about the communication of the animals...
Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
| Author | Ralph Helfer |
| ISBN | 0060761326 |
One day, Ralph Helfer, a celebrated animal behaviorist, received a surprising phone call. His close friends had found a young lion near death by the Zambezi River in Zambia and had rescued him and brought him back to the States. Ralph had often spoken of wanting to raise a lion from a young age -- he had been...
| Author | Bob Tarte |
| ISBN | 1565125029 |
In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish duck who challenges...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0743200268 |
Scientists call them "Inia geoffrensis," an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are "botos," shape shifters that, in the guise of human desire, can claim your soul and take you to the Encante, an enchanted...
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0802136656 |
Flannery travels to the unexplored regions of New Guinea in search of species that science has yet to discover or classify. He finds many -- from a community of giant cave bats that were supposedly extinct to the elusive black-and-white tree-kangaroo -- and along the way has a wealth of unforgettable...
| Author | Roy Aronson |
| ISBN | 1599219425 |
The heart-wrenching and adventure-filled stories of a South African wild animal vet and his colleagues
When do you watch a wild animal suffer and let nature take its course, and when do you intervene? In his more than twenty-five years as an African vet, Dr. Roy Aronson has seen and done some...
| Author | Lucy H. Spelman |
| ISBN | 0385341466 |
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the...
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
| Author | Margaret Mittelbach |
| ISBN | 0812967690 |
Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted...
| Author | Lawrence Anthony |
| ISBN | 0312358326 |
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and uncontrolled looting had killed nearly all the animals...
| Author | Jeff Corwin |
| ISBN | 1605298476 |
It’s no secret that our planet—and the delicate web of ecosystems that comprise it—is in crisis. Environmental threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and land degradation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species each day. In 100 Heartbeats, conservationist...
| Author | Amy Sutherland |
| ISBN | 0670037680 |
An invitation into the magical, grueling, and virtually unknown world of exotic animal training
Behind the imposing gate of the Exotic Animal Training Program at California’s Moorpark College lies a kingdom full of small mysteries, deep passions, and a camel that shoots hoops. Each year...
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures
| Author | Richard E. Leakey |
| ISBN | 0312303343 |
In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set him against internal corruption, poverty,...
| Author | George Adamson |
| ISBN | 0671624970 |
I absolutely love George Adamson and have read all his books and watched the documentaries. His story made a life changing decision for me....to become a wildlife Vet and conservationist. His work is admired and inspiring. I can't recommend this book enough...all of them by him. It's a shame how he dies,...
| Author | Karsten Heuer |
| ISBN | 1594850100 |
What began as a wildlife research project became much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Both gripping adventure and stark portrayal of an Arctic cosystem threatened by oil development....
Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa
| Author | Tony Fitzjohn |
| ISBN | 0307716031 |
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...
