The wilderness family
Subtitle: at home with Africa's wildlife
By: Kobie Krüger
Edition: 1st Ballantine ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780345444264
Subjects: Lion; Animals; Anecdotes
Description: 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.
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Mahlangeni: Remote meeting place; title: How we got there; title: Dramatic welcome; title: Prince of darkness; title: Paranoid hippos; title: Troubles on a lonely track; title: Beware of elephants; title: Fostering a honey badger; title: Children of the wild; title: Solitude; title: Memories of a symphony; title: Encounter on the Koppie; title: Camping under the stars; title: To have and to keep; title: Our intrepid game guards; title: Whims of the generator; title: Malaria and a month of mishaps - Coping with snakes; title: Reign of the river; title: Wildfire; title: Trumpets in the morning; title: Giggling thieves; title: Elephants in the night; title: Domestic circus; title: Seasons; title: Wild harmony; title: Crocodile bridge and Pretorius Kop: Goodbye, sweet solitude; title: Melancholia; title: Great adjustment; title: Trouble-sharing friend; title: Alarming message book; title: Lion attack; title: Days after; title: Caring for a serval; title: Foundling prince; title: Nobly born; title: Royal cubhood; title: Leo and Wolfie; title: Confused scholar; title: Riotous adolescent; title: In a world of his own; title: Sandra's wedding; title: Moving west; title: Enchanted days; title: Lion man; title: memorable autumn; title: Bittersweet times; title: Where may a lion live?; title: Pamuzinda; title: In a hospital in Harare; title: Onward, Leo; title: Tears and consolation; title: Dominated by a genet cat; title: News of Leo; title: Visit to the king; title: All things wild and wonderful.