Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
10 best books like Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide (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, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
| 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 | Lawrence Anthony |
| ISBN | 1250004519 |
When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In "The Last Rhinos," Anthony recounts...
| Author | Jeffrey Tayler |
| ISBN | 0609808265 |
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley’s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food,...
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 | 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...
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0679770798 |
An absolutely outstanding book. This is a collection of pieces the author wrote for Outside and some other magazines during the late 70s and early 80s. The book far exceeds the quality of Pecked to Death by Ducks, which is the only other of his collections I have read.
The first half of the book...
| Author | Dan Morrison |
| ISBN | 0670021989 |
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea
With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
| Author | Lauren St. John |
| ISBN | 0743286790 |
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing...
| Author | Kira Salak |
| ISBN | 0792274571 |
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
| Author | Ayun Halliday |
| ISBN | 1580050972 |
Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused,...
In this brilliant, hilarious memoir, Robyn Scott recounts the years living in Botswana while her dad works as a flying doctor. At first she thinks her parents don't have the best ideas, but soon she begins to realize the importance of her father's work. Botswana has the highest rate of HIV infection in...
| 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...
This sequel to THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA continues the story of Elspeth Huxley's childhood in Kenya. British settlers, called to serve in WW I, return to their neglected farms and ranches. For Tilly and Robin it is back to the struggle. For their daughter, now 11, it is back to the ponies, lessons at home,...
| Author | Richard Grant |
| ISBN | 1439154147 |
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make...
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 | 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...
| 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....
My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara
| Author | Jeroen van Bergeijk |
| ISBN | 0767928695 |
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
—Janis Joplin
A journalist’s intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa.
“Look, there’s my car,” I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot.
“Where?”...
