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1) Safari
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Safari day dawns on the savanna. The African light gives the sky colors seen nowhere else on Earth. Soon, an amazing array of wild animals are yawning, screeching, and growling to life. Meet the elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, hippos, and the laughing hyenas of the wilderness and find out who's friends with whom and why!
2) Assegai
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Courtney novels volume 12
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English
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Leon Courtney, ladies' man and former lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and high-profile safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. On the eve of war, Leon is recruited by his uncle, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto's mistress, Eva, who has...
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals, herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a pride of hungry lions! Join Allison as he faces down...
4) The lioness
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Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor...
5) Safari
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"Stanley Hastings on safari? He didn't think so, until Alice's small inheritance -- plus scrimping on luxuries like food -- paid for a trip to Zambia. But the safari leader is a reckless, gung-ho, great white hunter, and a series of bizarre accidents dwindles the group's numbers. But were they really accidents? A stabbing tips the scale. It's murder, and the only policeman in a hundred miles is a park ranger. It's up to Stanley to crack the case."...
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This is a self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of Hemingway's final African safari to Kenya with his wife, Mary, and son, Patrick. The whole family is caught up in Mary's pursuit of a black-maned lion and Hemingway wants to take Debba, an African girl, as his second bride.
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His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in--and fascination with--big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and...
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Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2005
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English
Description
In "Something wicked this way comes" evil arrives in a small Midwestern town on the crest of the wind one autumn night. In "A sound of thunder" a safari company promises to transport adventurers back in time so they can hunt any animal that ever existed.