'For anyone interested in animals or in real life adventure this book is a must' Jane Goodall
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 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 alongside lions brown hyenas jackals giraffes
and the many other creatures they came to know. Cry of the Kalahari is a gripping account of
how two young Americans survived the dangers of living in one of the last pristine areas on
Earth. Reissued for the first time since its original publication in 1984 this beautiful new
edition contains never-seen-before colour photographs of Mark and Delia on their adventure of
a lifetime. 'Extraordinary... How the couple overcome 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
