| 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.
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Lion -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Anecdotes.
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Kruger National Park (South Africa)
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| ISBN |
0345444264: $26.95 |
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