The Tree where Man was BornIn this book, two naturalists join to evoke the African experience. |
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... Serengeti Plains , all of which , in 1961 , seemed on the point of disappearance . Traveling overland from Cairo , I got as far south as the Ngorongoro Crater , in the country still known then as Tanganyika . The new Sunday air charter ...
... Serengeti Plains , all of which , in 1961 , seemed on the point of disappearance . Traveling overland from Cairo , I got as far south as the Ngorongoro Crater , in the country still known then as Tanganyika . The new Sunday air charter ...
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... Serengeti park ; they were harassing the Lemai guard post at night with threats and stones . Myles Turner flew an extra ranger to Lemai to strengthen the garrison , and I went along . We cir- cled a concentration of six hundred buffalo ...
... Serengeti park ; they were harassing the Lemai guard post at night with threats and stones . Myles Turner flew an extra ranger to Lemai to strengthen the garrison , and I went along . We cir- cled a concentration of six hundred buffalo ...
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... Serengeti . In 1913 , when the first safari came here , 3 the abounding lions and wild dogs were shot as vermin , but no elephants were seen at all . Even after 1925 , when the plains were hunted regularly by such men as Philip Percival ...
... Serengeti . In 1913 , when the first safari came here , 3 the abounding lions and wild dogs were shot as vermin , but no elephants were seen at all . Even after 1925 , when the plains were hunted regularly by such men as Philip Percival ...
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