OWENS, Mark and Delia.
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1984.
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First Edition of Mark and Delia Owens' Cry of the Kalahari; Inscribed by Both
First edition of this classic work, which ranks with "Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist" (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers by Lorraine Sneed, illustrated with color photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mark Owens and signed by Delia Owens on the title page, "For Sandra and Eldon Youngblood, Thanks so much for your love of wild places and those who live there. Best always, Mark J. Owens, Delia Owens, 13 September 1985." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Accompanied by a brochure program for The Mane Event put on by the Dallas Zoological Society and presenting Mark and Delia Owens, as well as an L.S.B Leaky Foundation brochure, laid in.
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 thirdhand 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 Owenses began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.
An international bestseller, Cry of the Kalahari is the story of the Owenses life with lions, brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes, and the many other creatures they came to know. It is also a gripping account of how they survived the dangers of living in one of the last and largest pristine areas on Earth.
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness.
$975.00
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