The Wilderness Family
At Home with Africa's Wildlife
$45.88
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2002
Summary
Kobie Kruger’s fascinating, funny and moving account of life in the South African wilderness.
When Kobie Krüger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world - a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa’s vast Kruger National Park - she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness and boredom. Yet, for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beauti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553813340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 055381334X |
| Author: | Kobie Kruger |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2002 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
An exquisite book
A beautiful, tenderly written book by someone with a heart that embraces all living things – Virginia McKenna
There are some nail-biting encounters in the bush, and myriad touching tales * Choice *
An exquisite book * Daily Express *
Kobie Kruger
Kobie Krüger was born on a farm in the Northern Province bushlands of South Africa. She met her husband, Kobus, at the University of Pretoria and they lived in Namibia and Johannesburg before moving to the Kruger National Park in 1980.
The Wilderness Family was published as two volumes in South Africa - both were number one bestsellers. She has also published Buro van Babel and Boskonsert, nominated for an AKTV Prose Prize in 1992, and made two documentary films in the Kruger National Park which were screened on national television in South Africa. She now lives at Paradise Beach in the Eastern Cape with her husband and youngest daughter.
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