Cry of the Kalahari (1984) is an autobiographical book detailing two young American zoologists, Mark and Delia Owens, and their experience studying wildlife in the Kalahari desert in Botswana in the mid-1970s. They lived with a few pairs of clothes and a pair of binoculars for seven years in an uninhabited area named Deception Valley in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. With no roads, no water for thousands of square miles, and no people. The nearest civilization was eight hours away, they had only each other and the animals they studied as a company, most of which had never seen humans before. Their research focused mainly on lions, brown hyenas, jackals, and other African carnivores. Cry of the Kalahari is the personal story of the Owens' encounters with these and a myriad of other animals and depicts their own struggle to live and work in such an inhospitable and unforgiving environment.
About the Author
Mark Owens born in 1944, is an American author biologist, zoologist, environmental activist, lecturer, and writer. He got married to her second wife Delia Dykes (Owens) in 1974. He lectured throughout the United States and Canada. He conducted research projects on animals in Africa with his then-wife Delia Owens, including in the Kalahari desert in Botswana (1974-81) and in Zambia (1985-97). He developed the North Luangwa Conservation Project (NLCP) in Zambia, Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation, Stone Mountain, GA, and began Grizzly bear conservation efforts in Idaho and the United States, International Wildlife, roving editor (1997) with Delia Owens.
Delia Owens born in 1949, is an American author and zoologist. Her debut novel was Where the Crawdads Sing. In the mid-'80s, Owens co-wrote Cry of the Kalahari with her then-husband Mark, which was a best-selling, nonfictional account of traveling and researching Africa's Kalahari Desert. One of the joys of Cry of the Kalahari was Owens' description of the natural world. She has also co-written the memoirs sharing credits with Mark--The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna at the time studying animals in Africa.
They had been awardees of many awards and honors together:
- 1981 - Rolex Awad for Enterprise for Kalahari Research Project (Mark-Delia Owens)
- 1985 - John Burroughs Award (Mark-Delia Owens)
- 1993 - University of California Outstanding Alumnus Award (both Mark and Delia Owens)
- 1994 - Ridder of the Golden Ark Netherlands (Mark-Delia Owens)
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Rating: 4.6/5
Author: Mark and Delia Owens
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (1st Edition), Robert Hartnoll Limited (original)
Publishing Date: October 1, 1984
Edition Language: English
Genre: Botswanan Travel Guides, Autobiography, Biology of Wildlife, Zoology, Ecotourism Travel Guides
ISBN-10: 0395322146
ISBN-13: 978-0395322147
Pages: 341 (Hardcover)
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