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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M Sapolsky  
Powells.com 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...
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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...
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting...
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall
Synopsis As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the...
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments An in-depth biography of Jane Goodall describes how the seminal scientist and naturalist revolutionized the study of primates through her years of study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, helped establish radical new standards and a new intellectual style in...
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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...
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Secrets of the Savanna:
by Mark James Owens Publisher Comments From the best-selling authors of Cry of the Kalahari, the dramatic story of Mark and Delia Owens's last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villages, and, in the end, themselves. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of...
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The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
by Delia Owens Publisher Comments 'Expelled from Botswana for writing Cry of the Kalahari, the Owenses set off across Africa. They settled in Zambia, where they soon found their peace shattered by the gunfire of elephant poachers. This is the story of the couple\'s battle to save the...
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Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is the first book I read about primates. Now I'm hooked. Fossey's exploration of gorilla families and behaviors in their natural habitat is fascinating. Her drive to save these majestic beings is beyond inspiring." Recommended by Tanaz...
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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...
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Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar
by Heather E Heying Publisher Comments By definition, antipode is a point on the earth diametrically opposite from another. As a field biologist specializing in reptiles and amphibians, Heather Heying has been to some of the most remote places on the globe. Her career consists of trekking...
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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...
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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....
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Field Guide to the Mammals of Southern Africa (Field Guide To...)
by Chris Stuart Publisher Comments Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species, a total of 337 - all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field guide. While the term 'African mammals' conjures up the more celebrated species of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard and...
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Gorilla: Struggle for Survival in the Virungas
by Michael Nichols Publisher Comments Gorilla recounts in remarkable color photographs the strange and powerful story of the last few hundred members of a nearly extinct species: the famed mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes. These inhabitants of the forested mountain range bordering...
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In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees
by Sheila Siddle Publisher Comments Sheila Siddle's life was changed forever one fateful day in 1983 when a local game ranger brought a battered, malnourished chimpanzee to the door of her cattle ranch in central Zambia and asked her to do whatever she could to save it. As Sheila and her...
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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...
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments AFRICA IN MY BLOOD is an extraordinary self-portrait, in letters and commentary, of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the landmark publication of IN THE SHADOW OF MAN. It reveals this remarkable woman more vividly and clearly than anything...
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A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola
by John Frederi Walker Publisher Comments In A Certain Curve of Horn, veteran journalist John Frederick Walker tells the story of one of the most revered and endangered of the regal beasts of Africa: the giant sable antelope of Angola, a majestic, coal-black quadruped with breathtaking curved...
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Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa
by Chris Stuart Publisher Comments Of the world's 4,000 to 4,500 mammal species, about 1,100 occur in Africa. In this updated and revised edition of Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa, authors Chris and Tilde Stuart concentrate on the more visible and easily distinguished larger...
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