$25.58
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2022
Summary
The incredible memoir by international bestselling author of Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens and her then partner Mark Owens’, charting their time researching wildlife in the Kalahari Desert. Reissued and in full colour, for the first time since its original publication.
In the early 1970s, carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, Mark and Delia Owens caught a plane to Africa, bought a third-hand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472156457 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472156455 |
| Author: | Delia Owens, Mark Owens |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 197mm x 126mm |
| Series: | Language Acts and Worldmaking |
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For anyone interested in animals or in real live adventure, this book is a must
For anyone interested in animals or in real live adventure, this book is a must * Jane Goodall *Extraordinary… How the couple overcame the hazards of the desert and came to appreciate its living richness makes fascinating reading… Read their remarkable book to be delighted, moved and awed * People Magazine *Leaps off the page and sweeps you away * Los Angeles Times *Splendid…If [the Owenses’s] survival is a wonder, so is their book - stirring, heartening and elegiac all at once * Newsweek *One of the best testimonials to the perseverance, idealism and general spunk of passionate animal students * Washington Post *Mark and Delia Owens’s simple human passion and dedication are invigorating. This is a remarkable and important story * Barry Lopez *
About The Author
Delia Owens
Delia Owens is the number one bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing. Mark Owens, along with Delia, spent many years working as a nature conservationist and together they wrote the internationally bestselling Cry of the Kalahari, Secrets of the Savanna and The Eye of the Elephant.
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