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Author Krüger, Kobie.

Title The wilderness family : at home with Africa's wildlife / Kobie Krüger.

Publication Info. New York : Ballantine Books, 2001.

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B KRUGER    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  591.9682 KRU    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  591.9682 KRUGER    Check Shelf
Description 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Note "Originally published in different form in South Africa by Penguin, as Mahlangeni (1994) and All things wild and wonderful (1996). This edition originally published in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers"--T.p. verso.
Summary Everyone warned Kobie Kruger that being the wife of a game warden at a remote ranger station in South Africa's largest national park would be an arduous move. Heat, malaria and man-eating wild animals would be constant companions. Yet the years she spent there were the most magical of her life.
Contents Mahlangeni: Remote meeting place -- How we got there -- Dramatic welcome-- Prince of darkness -- Paranoid hippos -- Troubles on a lonely track -- Beware of elephants -- Fostering a honey badger -- Children of the wild -- Solitude -- Memories of a symphony -- Encounter on the Koppie -- Camping under the stars -- To have and to keep -- Our intrepid game guards -- Whims of the generator -- Malaria and a month of mishaps - Coping with snakes -- Reign of the river -- Wildfire -- Trumpets in the morning -- Giggling thieves -- Elephants in the night -- Domestic circus -- Seasons -- Wild harmony -- Crocodile bridge and Pretorius Kop: Goodbye, sweet solitude -- Melancholia -- Great adjustment -- Trouble-sharing friend -- Alarming message book -- Lion attack -- Days after -- Caring for a serval -- Foundling prince -- Nobly born -- Royal cubhood -- Leo and Wolfie -- Confused scholar -- Riotous adolescent -- In a world of his own -- Sandra's wedding -- Moving west -- Enchanted days -- Lion man -- memorable autumn -- Bittersweet times -- Where may a lion live? -- Pamuzinda -- In a hospital in Harare -- Onward, Leo -- Tears and consolation -- Dominated by a genet cat -- News of Leo -- Visit to the king -- All things wild and wonderful.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.1 22.0 70086.
Subject Krüger, Kobie.
Lion -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Anecdotes.
Kruger National Park (South Africa)
ISBN 0345444264: $26.95
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