Our Nature Book List

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Botswana Safari Field Reports
Meet our expert Safari Guides

" best guides = best safaris ~ a bad guide in the best camp will ruin your safari."

AFRICA / GENERAL / HISTORICAL

Africa: Sandford J Ungar.
Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Nigel Pavitt.
Africa of the Heart: Joseph Hone
Scramble for Africa: Thomas Pakenham.
The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead
The White Nile, Alan Moorehead
The Tree Where Man was Born: Peter Matthiessen

CULTURAL

African Ceremonies, Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher.
Africa Adorned: Angela Fisher
Maasai: T Ole Saitoti, photos by Carol Beckwith
Origins Reconsidered, R. E. Leakey and R. Lewin
The Africans: David Lamb
Thompson through Maasai Land: Edited by EA Loftus

WILDLIFE GENERAL

Gorilla, Struggle for Survival in the Virungas
Island Africa, The Evolution of Africa’s Rare Animals and Plants, Jonathan Kingdon,
Portraits of the Wild: Behavior studies of EA Mammals, Cynthia Moss
Safari Companion, A Guide to Watching African Mammals, Richard D. Estes,
Savage Paradise, The Predators of Serengeti, Hugo Van Lawick

SPECIALIST FIELD GUIDES

Animals of E Africa: Louis Leakey
Birds of Kenya & Tanzania, Zimmerman, Turner and Pearson,
Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa, Terry Stevenson & John Fanshawe
Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa, Stephen Spawls.
Guide to the Seashores of Eastern Africa, M. D. Richmond
The Behavior Guide to Mammals, Richard Despard Estes
The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals, Jonathan Kingdon
Travellers Guide of East Africa: Thornton Cox
The Lonely Planet Guide to East Africa

KENYA

Big Cat Diary, Brian Jackman & Jonathan Scott
I Dreamed of Africa, Kuki Gallman
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
Safari, A Chronicle of Adventure, Bartle Bull
The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley
The End of the Game, Peter Beard

TANZANIA

Among the Elephants: Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton
Barefoot over the Serengeti: David Read
Ngorongoro, the Eighth Wonder: H. Fosbrooke
Sand Rivers, Peter Matthiessen
Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway
The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Patterns of Behavior, Jane Goodall

RWANDA

Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey

Nature Reading
Cheetahs
Born to be Wild
Leatherbacks and Loggerheads
Giraffes in Africa
Rhinos in Africa
African Trees
River Horses: Hippopotamus
Marine Marvels of Maputaland
Survival Strategies of African Butterflies
Whale and Dolphin Watching
Great White Sharks near Capetown, South Africa
Run Sardine Run!