The wilderness family : at home with Africa's wildlife / Kobie Krüger.
- Title
- The wilderness family : at home with Africa's wildlife / Kobie Krüger.
- Published by
- New York : Ballantine Books, c2001.
- Author
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- Description
- vii, 381 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- 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.
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