The Lost World of the Kalahari

6 best books like The Lost World of the Kalahari (Laurens van der Post): The Luminaries, Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Death on the Cherwell, Jerusalem: The Biography, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, The Third Man Factor: The Secret To Survival In Extreme Environments

The Luminaries

Author	Eleanor Catton
ISBN	0316074314

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried...

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

Author	Peter Allison
ISBN	0762745657

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,...

Death on the Cherwell

Author	Mavis Doriel Hay
ISBN	0712357262

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils in the world: unladylike behavior among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon,...

Jerusalem: The Biography

Author	Simon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN	0297852655

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine...

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

Author	Susannah Carson
ISBN	1400068053

For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans or as much devotion. So why are we so fascinated...

The Third Man Factor: The Secret To Survival In Extreme Environments

Author	John Geiger
ISBN	0143017519

Trader Ron DiFrancesco in the World Trade Center, diver Stephanie Schwabe, Sir Ernest Shackleton: All shared an experience that an unseen being helped them to survive against staggering odds. If it were just a handful of people, it might be dismissed, but in fact, this phenomenon has occurred again...