The Elephant Whisperer
- Lawrence Anthony
Written by one of Africa’s most renowned conservationists, The Elephant Whisperer follows the true story of one man’s mission to rescue a herd of rogue elephants who had been earmarked to be culled, and his efforts to get them settled at their new home in Zululand. Filled with inspirational lessons and heartfelt honesty, it captures the soul of conservation in Africa – with all its trials, tribulations and insightful lessons.
Born Free
- Joy Aamson
Rediscover the original classic – some 50 years later! – of Elsa the lioness, who was rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at the author’s home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heart-breaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself.
Cry of The Kalahari
- Mark & Delia Owens
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a third-hand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owens's began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.
Wild Life
- Keena Roberts
A funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. Switching between the tent sleeping and open fires in Africa, and the treacherous landscape of preppy private school social hierarchy this dreamer, reader, and adventurer’s memoir is at times heartbreaking and at other times hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.
The Old Way
- Elizabeth Marshall thomas
At the age of nineteen Elizabeth’s father took her and the rest of their family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on earth, and discovers among them an essential link to the origins of all human society.
I Dreamed Of Africa
- Kuki Gallmann
'Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to Kenya’s Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the lake, and the evening shadows settle over the valleys and plains of the Laikipia plateau.' Kuki Gallmann's haunting memoir of bringing up a family in Kenya in the 1970s first with her husband Paulo, and then alone, is part elegaic celebration, part tragedy, and part love letter to the magical spirit of Africa.
An African Love Story
- Daphne Sheldrick
Written by one of Africa’s most renowned conservationists, The Elephant Whisperer follows the true story of one man’s mission to rescue a herd of rogue elephants who had been earmarked to be culled, and his efforts to get them settled at their new home in Zululand. Filled with inspirational lessons and heartfelt honesty, it captures the soul of conservation in Africa – with all its trials, tribulations and insightful lessons.
Affluence Without Abundance
- James Suzman
Anthropologist James Suzman spent twenty-five years in Southern Africa documenting their way of life of the Khoi San, commonly known as the “Bushmen”. This fascinating glimpse into a disappearing way of life leads Suzman to reflect on our world today: a world where wealth and possessions are valued above all other pursuits. Suzman's account of the lives of Bushmen, past and present, offers plenty of fuel for thought. Perhaps our modern life, for all its comfort and advancement, isn’t really as infinitely superior compared to our ancient forefathers’ as we thought...
Long Walk To Freedom
- Nelson Mandela
The riveting autobiography of iconic statesman, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and president of South Africa Nelson Mandela is both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
Born A Crime
- Trevor Noah
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, and unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show, is by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, it offers a unique perspective of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humour and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight
- Alenandra Fuller
Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. But Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor’s story. It is the story of one woman’s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt.
The Poisonwood Bible
- Barbara Kingsolver's
Barbara Kingsolver's acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of the fierce evangelical Baptist, Nathan Price, who takes his wife and four daughters on a missionary journey into the heart of darkness of the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them to Africa all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to the King James Bible - is calamitously transformed on African soil. Told from the perspective of the five women, this is a compelling exploration of African history, religion, family, and the many paths to redemption.
