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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M Sapolsky Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the baboons... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison Publisher Comments Whatever You Do, Don’t Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa by Nick Brandt Publisher Comments Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Audubon Field Guide To African Wildlife by Peter C Alden Publisher Comments The first and only field guide to offer comprehensive coverage of the African continent, this guide sends the reader on a virtual safari. All the birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects are brought to life, and the parks and reserves for which the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Flexible
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Tree Where Man Was Born (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments On the great East African plain it is the human who feels himself the intruder. Here, and perhaps only here, the world is that of the animals. It is they who belong, as humans do not. In the more sensitive traveler this evokes a feeling of being... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story from Deep Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin Publisher Comments It was the Age of Enlightenment. And in Paris, a gentle, wide-eyed stranger was all the rage. In 1826, a twelve-foot giraffe, captured in the Sudan, shipped down the Nile, carried across the Mediterranean in a ship's hold, was now walking across... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Secrets of the Savanna (07 Edition) by James Owens Publisher Comments In this thrilling real-life adventure, award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and, ultimately, themselves.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Alive in Africa: My Journeys on Foot in the Sahara, Rift Valley, and Rain Forest by William Wheeler Publisher Comments Alive in Africa chronicles author and photographer William F. Wheeler's exceptional journeys on foot through a continent of great extremes—from the Sahara desert to the grasslands of the Great Rift Valley, to the Congo rainforest... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanityas closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Predator: Life and Death in the African Bush by Mark Ross Publisher Comments With his phenomenal photographs of the five great predators of the African bush--lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, and crocodiles--Ross's compelling and sometimes violent images capture the true scenarios that are played out every day on this... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees by Sheila Siddle Synopsis This is the uplifting story behind one woman's transformation from a grandmother on the brink of retirement to an international animal-rights activist--and the unforgettable chimpanzees she has come to know and love along the way. Photos.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Kruger by Adrian Bailey Publisher Comments For over 100 years, the Kruger National Park has provided sanctuary to southern Africa's most precious asset, its wildlife, Wild Kruger pays tribute to this achievement, capturing the essence of this conservation success story. Here the park's wild... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Manzovo: Place of the Elephants by Gary Albyn Publisher Comments Nestled like a rare jewel in the inhospitable but alluring Zambezi Valley, Mana Pools provides the early setting for the episodic story of Manzovo - place of the elephants.Thandi, now at the height of her prime, is the astute and respected matriarchal... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $29.95 Used - Book W/Audio Cd
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California Studies in Food and Culture #6: Eating Apes by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes--chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned expose details how, with the unprecedented opening... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jungle a Journey To the Heart of the Rai by Charlott Uhlenbroek Synopsis Using hi-tech climbing technology, a hot-air balloon and a boat, Charlotte explores the soaring canopy of the Borneo rainforest, the flooded forest floor of the Amazon and the dense underworld of the Congo, offering a day-to-day glimpse of a fascinating... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Ultimate African Wildlife by Nigel Dennis Publisher Comments A portfolio of Nigel Dennis's best work selected from 30,000 images of Africa's spectacular wildlife, taken over a period of 10 years. The stunning larger than life photographs--over 200 in total--cover most of the larger mammals in Africa, broken down... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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African Odyssey: 365 Days by Anup Shah Publisher Comments Every year, spurred on by the dry season on the African plains in Kenya and Tanzania, close to two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles make the epic journey from their breeding grounds in the southern Serengeti to greener, wetter grass on the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Secrets of the Savanna: by Mark Owens Publisher Comments The authors spent 23 years in the Zambian wilderness where they started a unique program to lift the villagers out of poverty and allow the wildlife populations to recover from poaching. After more than two decades of work, they were driven out of the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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