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“The best compliment you can pay a travel writer is to read his work and feel like you’re right there with him. For more than two hundred pages, I felt like I was in Africa, up to my neck in danger. I don’t even know this guy, but more than once I lay awake at night, worrying for his safety. Enough adventure, action, life lessons, and laughs to fill a movie and four sequels. The fact that Allison survived to write any of this down is a miracle in itself.” —Cash Peters, author of Naked in Dangerous Places and Gullible’s Travels

Romantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn’t always particularly glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do, Don’t Run details his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but also in South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibia—places he loves, despite how much it feels like they just might be trying to kill him.

In Don’t Look Behind You, Allison recounts adventures few would live to tell. Like the time he and a group of bored guides launched a makeshift raft into a foaming river teeming with hippos and crocodiles. Or the afternoon he heard monkeys telling him that a leopard was walking around the camp, and then realized the leopard was in his tent, with him in it.

Join Peter Allison for another riveting, rollicking, behind-the-scenes dose of everyone’s dream experience—going on safari—and come through amazed but, thankfully, without a scratch.

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What are the benefits that animals gain from living in a social group? This question has been the primary focus of the author's ecological interest. After many years of original and innovative research on the African buffalo, particularly at Lake Manyara in northern Tanzania, Herbert Prins has now summarized the results of much of this widely-respected work in this fascinating book. While advantages in reduction of the risks of predation or in increased efficiency of foraging on certain types of resources are now widely recognized, until now there has been less attention paid to the idea of the animals themselves as `information centres' and the extent to which the individual may be able to make use of information gathered by conspecifics, adjusting its own behaviour in response. Such a case-study has wide implications for research on social structure and organization in other species, and these are explored within the book. However, it is not a book aimed simply at the academic researcher, zoologist and behavioural ecologist; since it is written in a readable and accessible style, the book will also be enjoyed by wildlife enthusiasts, interested naturalists, wildlife biologists and wildlife managers.

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A symbol of mythic potency, the African lion has ruled the human imagination for millennia. But in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's most awe-inspiring hunters are challenged not only by their waterlogged territory, but also by their formidable prey—the buffalo—who wield their massive horns with deadly accuracy. Pulsing with ancient rhythms of wild Africa, this harsh and eternal struggle is compelling, powerful, and poignant. Award-winning filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Beverly and Dereck Joubert, give us an unforgettable glimpse of this iconic drama in the official companion book to their feature film, The Last Lions, and warn that due to declining numbers of lions in the wild, it may soon end forever.

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Grade 3–5—Meet Chewbaaka, an ambassador for the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia. He is the subject of this book and has charmed many visitors, school groups, and area farmers. Chewbaaka is a rescued cheetah, raised with humans, and has a powerful purr. However, it is Laurie Marker, Time magazine's Hero of the Planet, who is responsible for his success story. Her research, PR work, and guidance have changed the cheetah's survival rates. In addition to bits of information about the animal's eating habits, size, and lifespan, Hansen, who worked for the CCF, also outlines the organization's methodology, care, and programming. Readers go along with Dr. Marker to rescue a baby cheetah, walk into the veterinary surgery to see a life saved, and observe a successful cheetah release. Well-conceived placement of the text and photographs with CCF's trademark side-strip of cheetah fur make the pages pop, but part of the report feels like "what Hansen did on her summer vacation" because of the short, choppy sentences. Overall, though, this is an effective photo journal of an African adventure and a CCF publicity piece outlining its work. It shows progress against ignorance and destruction as area farmers are educated to the real versus perceived threats to the cheetah and are given specially trained dogs to protect their goats. While there are many other books about cheetahs, this is the only one about the CCF in action.—Nancy Call, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Aptos, CA

This beautiful photo-essay explores the animal-human connection and the urgency of the work to save the fastest land animals on earth. Hansen worked at the huge nature reserve and research center owned by the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia, southwestern Africa, and her account, which includes stories of animals raised at the center, packs in a lot of zoological information about cheetahs' life cycle, physiology, and role in the food chain. Hansen explains how conservation groups are helping the animals, (including the work to resolve conflicts with local farmers and the involvement of schoolchildren in raising awareness of the animals' plight) and the book offers an abundance of large, clear color photos, many taken by the author. Fans of books by Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey will identify with Laurie Marker, founder of the CCF^B, where^B science and research combine with tough love. A map, some fascinating scientific facts, a glossary, and a list of Web sites are included. Hazel Rochman

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Here’s a superb collection of in-your-face images of Africa’s magnificent Big Five – lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant. Award-winning wildlife photographer Gerald Hinde has long been enthralled by these magnificent animals and has spent countless hours in the field, experiencing them in all their different moods and behaviors.

Big Five of Africa beautifully reproduces some of the more remarkable moments he has captured on film during his visits to the wildlife sanctuaries of southern and East Africa. Brief but informative text introduces each animal in turn, providing interesting insights into the nature of these formidable, yet compelling, creatures.

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This top-selling series introduces the wild creatures of the world and examines the natural world. Good general introductions for ages 10+, these volumes contain the knowledge, personal experiences, and research of leading naturalists and scientists, accompanied by stunning photography. Unless otherwise noted (*), all volumes are sturdy paperback.

Luke Hunter is the post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. He is trained in the capture and immobilization of African wildlife and has handled most of the large carnivores during his research.

Cheetahs is an easy-to-read introduction to this magnificent animal, illustrated with spectacular color photographs, taken from all over the world by award-winning photographers.

Compelling/Unique Features: Acclaimed wildlife books draw on the knowledge, personal experiences and research of the world's leading naturalists; illustrated by award-winning photographers.

To see a cheetah at full stretch in the open terrain of the Kalhari desert or the Serengeti plains is to witness nature at its most breathtaking.

A consultant for many natural history films, he regularly appears on a South African environmental program as scientific consultant. He has written numerous articles on cheetahs and other big cats, and has traveled extensively in Africa and beyond.

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A rhinoceros is a powerful beast weighing 3 tons or more and wielding a deadly horn up to five feet long. Ruthlessly slaughtered for centuries, rhinos are suddenly one of conservation's great success stories as populations of white rhinos and black rhinos recover. Even so, rhinos are still at risk: Javan and Sumatran rhinos are close to extinction and the world rhino population is still less than it was just 30 years ago.

Rhino Rescue profiles people around the world who are helping rhinos, including:

Terri Roth of the Cincinnati Zoo, who guided the successful breeding of a rare Sumatran rhino in captivity for the first time in 112 years
Esmond Martin, who helped stop the use of rhino horn in ceremonial daggers, a change that saved thousands of rhinos
Rob Brett, who risks his life relocating rhinos, a key to successful conservation
Bibhab Talukdar, a conservationist from India, who does almost anything to protect the Indian rhino, including going undercover to nab poachers.

Illustrated with 50 spectacular color photographs, Rhino Rescue also surveys the biological issues in and challenges of preserving a future for endangered wildlife.

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Grade 4-7 -The first five pages in each book provide overviews of the Web sites that can be accessed when using the required code and visiting the MyReportLinks.com home page. A one-page fact sheet gives information about the animal such as scientific name, gestation period, habitat, and coloration. The following chapters explain why the animal has become endangered and the efforts that are being made to save it. The information is current and accurate and the Web sites are educational. These books could be used as tools for demonstrating how research can be done using books and Internet sites. The biggest drawbacks are the small and unclear photos and maps, which are mainly screen prints of Web shots.-Sandra Welzenbach, Villarreal Elementary School, San Antonio, TX

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Ann and Steve Toon travel thousands of miles each year to photograph the world's wildlife. They spend as much time as possible in the field documenting the natural behavior of wild subjects and the work of conservationists. Based in North West England, on the edge of the Lake District, they have come to regard the game parks of southern Africa as a second home, but also work regularly on location in Australia, India and South East Asia. When time allows they enjoy photographing the wildlife of Britain. Ann and Steve have an extensive background in journalism and write regularly for magazines and newspapers on natural history, photography and ecotourism.

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