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This book is a happy thing for me. I first read this book 20+ years ago and loved it. I went on to read their "Elephant book" as well. Will (now 13) is really into non-fiction books and I went on something of a "quest" to figure out the name of the book so he could read it. I couldn't remember the name or title or authors or anything and I was doing random Google searches for "couple lives with lions in Kalahari desert" and things like that. No luck. Enter: Where The Crawdads Sing (yes, I loved
Although it's an old book (1980s), I would recommend it to absolutely everyone. Mark and Delia Owens had the adventure of a lifetime, and brought world focus to the problems of African animals. I put it at exactly the same level of importance and influence as Silent Spring. And it's a much more interesting read: the Owenses had so many brushes with death, the book is like an adventure page-turner as well as a clarion call for conservation.The Owenses have been busy since leaving the Kalahari in
Loved this book and the complete sacrifice of the authors to research and live around the beautiful wildlife in Africa! Bringing this information to lite is so important to conservation. We should be good stewards of the world we live in and take care of the creatures we live with here. Great stories. Great information. Must have been Heartbreaking for the authors to sit back and not help the animals - I don't know how they didn't feed or give water to them when needed!
On January 4, 1974 Mark and Delia Owens boarded a plane with two backpacks, two sleeping bags, one pup tent, a small cooking kit, a camera, one change of clothes each, and $6ooo. These two left behind everything they had ever known to explore their passion together in wild Africa. This book is not a play by play of their scientific research, but a personal story of their feelings, experiences, and everyday life in Deception Valley of the Kalahari Desert. These two warm hearts take you deep into
I was born and raised in Botswana, and have visited many of the places described in this book. I have a great love for the wild, open plains of the great Kalahari that are described so beautifully in this book, and it is with a heavy heart that I can relate to many of the conservation ideals prescribed by the authors in the 70's because today, in 2019 the Kalahari is slowly fading away. The vast number of wildebeest described in the book are no more; the fences that were said to interfere with m...
Oh, to be Mark and Delia and lie under the clear sky with only lions for company. That is the stuff of dreams for an animal lover. I feel privileged to have been taken by the authors to Botswana Kalahari and given a glimpse of the rare world out there, so inaccessible to most of us. So for that, thank you, Mark & Delia!Mark and Delia (M&D henceforth) were students in the 70s US trying to think of a subject for their Ph.D thesis. Finally, they decided to go to Botswana on a pure whim. They sold o...
This book was an instant classic about the wilds of Africa in my humble opinion. It is the true story of Mark and Delia Owens who explored the foreboding Kalahari desert and studied the wildlife there. It is a story about how they survived and how the wildlife is adapted to live in these harsh conditions too. A must read for anyone interested in wildlife and conservation.
In Cry of the Kalahari, Mark and Delia Owens recount seven years of studying the Botswana wildlife, particularly lions and brown hyenas. I'm glad they wrote about the experience in such detail, as it wasn't just the bliss of watching the lions sunbathing. The hardships of their living were unbelievable. Just securing the funding was a painstaking process, and then there was the day-to-day hard work and research to be done. These two survived so much, I'm honestly surprised they lived to tell the...
The descriptions of the untouched wildlife in the Kalahari desert are astounding. The authors, however, are dumbasses. What sort of crazy people move to the Kalahari desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement, without any equipment or experience to speak of? It is truly miraculous that they didn't die out there -- especially after reading about some of the experiences they had along the way. Nonetheless it's a good read and gave me new appreciation for both the wildlife of Afric...
‘The sky deepened. I lay back in the straw-colored grass, and pressing my fingers into the rough surface of the riverbed, as I had so many times before, I wondered how long the Kalahari would belong to the wild.’Having lived and worked in Africa, I am always eager to read stories from that conflicted continent. ‘Cry of the Kalahari’, originally published in 1984, is being reissued with full colour photos for the first time and I highly recommend it. It was a wake up call almost forty years ago a...
An inspiring read by a young couple who devoted seven years to the study of lions and hyenas in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. Their bravery, fearlessness, and tenacity in facing everything that nature (and man) throws at them is admirable and their contribution to the understanding of those species invaluable to their preservation. Side note: Delia Owens is also author of a novel I read recently and thoroughly enjoyed, “Where the Crawdads Sing.”
