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How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America

10 best books like How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America (Peter Allison): 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, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives, Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, In the Shadow of the Volcano: One Ex-Intelligence Official's Journey through Slums, Prisons, and Leper Colonies to the Heart of Latin America, The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier, No Dogs in Heaven?: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

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 Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
AuthorDelia Owens
ISBN0395680905
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...
Soul of a Lion: One Woman's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife Refugees
AuthorBarbara Bennett
ISBN1426206542
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...
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...
Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets
AuthorPeter Laufer
ISBN1599219263
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...
The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa
AuthorCaitlin O'Connell
ISBN0743284410
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...
In the Shadow of the Volcano: One Ex-Intelligence Official's Journey through Slums, Prisons, and Leper Colonies to the Heart of Latin America
AuthorMaureen Klovers
In a memoir that is at once heart-breaking and hilarious, former U.S. intelligence analyst Maureen Klovers embarks on a year-long quest to understand why so many Latin Americans are willing to risk their lives to come to America. She moves into a convent with a rogue American priest, two nuns, and dormitory...
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802137199
A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery, along with the human dimensions of struggle and...
No Dogs in Heaven?: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian
AuthorRobert T. Sharp
ISBN0786715243
For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here's a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great characteristics...
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
AuthorSue Savage-Rumbaugh
The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries...
Tales of an African Vet
AuthorRoy Aronson
ISBN1599219425
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...
All My Patients Have Tales: Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice
AuthorJeff Wells
ISBN0312537395
All My Patients Have Tales is a heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many other domestic, and not so “domesticâ€...
Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog and the Woman She Rescued
AuthorKim Meeder
ISBN1601422806
An unwanted dog. An emotional rescue.
Two lives forever changed.

Laurie's dreams had been shattered before she came to work at Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch—the ranch of rescued dreams—where broken horses and broken children encounter healing every day. In an attempt to soothe...
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
AuthorMargaret Mittelbach
ISBN0812967690
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...
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
AuthorLawrence Anthony
ISBN0312358326
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...
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
AuthorAmy Sutherland
ISBN0670037680
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
AuthorRichard E. Leakey
ISBN0312303343
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,...
My Pride and Joy: An Autobiography
AuthorGeorge Adamson
ISBN0671624970
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,...
Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads with a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan
AuthorMax Alexander
ISBN1401324177
The hilarious story of two brothers, a truckload of batteries, and a brilliant plan to bring light--and new business opportunities--to Ghana

At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services...
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
AuthorJulian Smith
ISBN0061873470
Here is the amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey of legendary British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard'' Grogan, the first man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of winning the heart of the woman he loved.

In 1898 the dashing young British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard''...
Botswana Time
AuthorWill Randall
ISBN0349117772
Laid-back account of teaching in Botswana. For me it didn't hit it's stride until the author reached his destination - which was actually later in the book than I would have liked. The humour in the early chapters in South Africa and as a safari-guide, for me, seemed rather 'placed', as if the author felt...
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...
Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
AuthorG.A. Bradshaw
ISBN0300127316
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from...
Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
AuthorKevin Richardson
ISBN0312556748
About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian, in a South African animal park. The film showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, crouching down at their level,...
Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras
AuthorJeffrey Moussaieff Masson
ISBN0345478819
Until reading this book, I had no idea that there were Westerners who so closely followed the tenets of Jainism as this author, Jeffrey Masson Moussaieff. Jainism is an ancient religion that originated in India, and its adherents have a strict policy of nonviolence towards all living things. And when...
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