Secrets Of The Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries ofElephants and People "Vividly written...Their story is thrilling—the kind of tale that wild-animal lovers won't easily forget."—People In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and—in the end—themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population’s recovery after poaching, discovering remarkable similarities between humans and elephants. A young elephant named Gift provided the clue to help them crack the animals’ secret of survival. A stirring portrait of life in Africa, Secrets of the Savanna is a remarkable record of the Owenses's unique passions. |
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... Camp Group — a few of the male elephants learned that they were safe near our camp, Marula-Puku, which we had built in a large grove of marula trees on a small river, the Lubonga, halfway between the massive mountains of the escarpment ...
... Camp Group — a few of the male elephants learned that they were safe near our camp, Marula-Puku, which we had built in a large grove of marula trees on a small river, the Lubonga, halfway between the massive mountains of the escarpment ...
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... camp and fed on fallen marula fruits next to the bedroom cottage some thirty yards away. For a while he and I, alone in camp, went about our work, only glancing at the other now and then. The occasional heavy drop of rain fell from the ...
... camp and fed on fallen marula fruits next to the bedroom cottage some thirty yards away. For a while he and I, alone in camp, went about our work, only glancing at the other now and then. The occasional heavy drop of rain fell from the ...
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... camp, just wandered nearby and stared at us from the bluff above our cottages. Their backs glistening with mud, the youngsters would splash in and out of the river and romp on the beach across from the n'saka. L. To keep out the African ...
... camp, just wandered nearby and stared at us from the bluff above our cottages. Their backs glistening with mud, the youngsters would splash in and out of the river and romp on the beach across from the n'saka. L. To keep out the African ...
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... camp and stood still, trunk hanging low, looking away as if we did not exist. I could see Harrison Simbeye and Jackson Kasokola, our other assistants, and Mark watching the small elephant from behind the marula trees at the workshop ...
... camp and stood still, trunk hanging low, looking away as if we did not exist. I could see Harrison Simbeye and Jackson Kasokola, our other assistants, and Mark watching the small elephant from behind the marula trees at the workshop ...
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... camp, little Gift bounced along behind them. She looked minute next to them, a windup toy circling on her own in the background. In the absence of her family unit, and abandoning all normal elephant behavior, Gift had taken up residency ...
... camp, little Gift bounced along behind them. She looked minute next to them, a windup toy circling on her own in the background. In the absence of her family unit, and abandoning all normal elephant behavior, Gift had taken up residency ...
Contents
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3 UpsideDown Elephants | 18 |
4 The Song of the Winterthorn | 33 |
5 Grandpa | 45 |
6 Any Time from Now | 54 |
7 Gullywhumper | 65 |
8 No School for Gift | 78 |
16 A Present from Gift | 131 |
17 A Dangerous Dinner | 138 |
18 Wildlife Drama | 145 |
19 When I Close My Eyes I See Elephants | 154 |
20 A Dance with Survivor | 158 |
21 Grass Huts and Leopard Stumps | 164 |
22 Camp Arrest | 173 |
23 Adrift | 180 |
9 The Women of Katibunga | 81 |
10 My Troop | 90 |
11 Mountain Elephants | 97 |
12 The Commerce of Understanding | 103 |
13 The Kakule Club | 112 |
14 Too Much Sugar | 122 |
15 Chipundu Pride | 124 |
24 The Stones of My Stream | 184 |
Epilogue | 191 |
Back Matter | 195 |
Back Flap | 231 |
Back Cover | 232 |
Spine | 233 |
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness ... Mark Owens,Delia Owens No preview available - 2006 |
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness ... Mark Owens,Mark James Owens,Delia Owens No preview available - 2006 |
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