Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
10 best books like Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (Robyn Scott): Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, The House at Sugar Beach, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness, I Dreamed of Africa, Cry of the Kalahari, Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, Emma's War, The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, Scribbling the Cat
| 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,...
| Author | Helene Cooper |
| ISBN | 0743266242 |
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced...
| Author | Tracy Kidder |
| ISBN | 1400066212 |
Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers...
| Author | Kuki Gallmann |
| ISBN | 0140287442 |
At the age of twenty-five, Kuki Gallman, divorced and badly injured in a devastating car accident, left Italy to convalesce in Africa with the man who would become her second husband. Enchanted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. But Africa's splendor came with...
| 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...
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
| Author | Neely Tucker |
| ISBN | 1400081602 |
Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't...
| Author | Deborah Scroggins |
| ISBN | 0375703772 |
Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to...
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 | Sarah Erdman |
| ISBN | 0312423128 |
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn't yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold of the village as a Peace Corps volunteer, she...
| Author | Alexandra Fuller |
| ISBN | 0330433997 |
When Alexandra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scibbled the cat, he told her. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange...
