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This volume is actually a compilation of three books: “Cry of the Kalahari”, “ The Eye of the Elephant” and “Secrets of the Savanna”, which makes it a doorstop of a book at 928 pages and 2.3 lbs. The first book is about Delia and Mark Owens years researching lions and brown hyenas in the Kalahari desert of Botswana. The second details their time in a National Park in Zambia where elephant poaching was rapidly wiping out the population of elephants and other large mammals of the region. The Owens...
I read Cry of the Kalahari when it first came out and loved it. So, I have read all 3 books now and loved the final book, almost as much as their first book which fueled my long term desire to visit Africa which I did in 2019. The final book is a memoir of their childhoods along with memories of their work in Africa. I am pleased their work has continued to save the African wildlife even though they have not been there for the past two decades.