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1) The lioness
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English
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"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant"--
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...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career,...
3) Assegai
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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, who 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...
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"In the winter of 1933 Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro ... The author later recreated his experiences there in 'Green Hills of Africa.' Rich in description and refreshingly alive to the character, culture, and customs of the country, it is one of Hemingway's most revealing aesthetic statements;...
5) Safari
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English
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Introduces young wildlife enthusiasts to an array of creatures in their natural habitats on the African Savannah.
7) Draw!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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In this wordless picture book, a boy who is confined to his room fills his sketch pad with lions and elephants, then imagines himself on a safari.
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English
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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...
10) Safari
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Reluctantly embarking on a group safari trip to Zambia, Stanley Hastings finds himself at the mercy of a reckless hunter guide who enjoys encounters with dangerous animals before suspicious accidents begin plaguing fellow tourists.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Tourism is Kenya's third largest source of income. Last year alone, more than half a million tourists spent their holidays here. But what don't the tourists see? Masai Mara: the Masai Mara is one of the best-known game parks in the world. All around the game park, mock villages have been built. Laden with baubles, the Masai embark on an aggressive sales pitch to the tourists. These fake villages are all that most tourists see while on safari. Meanwhile...
13) Shifting sands
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Anna's family hope that the safari holiday in South Africa will help her to get over her beloved husband's death, and come to terms with widowhood. No one is more surprised than Anna herself when she finds herself strongly attracted to a fellow member of the group, Lewis Masters, and despite her initial resistance, she is soon drawn into a new relationship. Back home, however, Anna is deeply perturbed when she learns that a young woman in Lewis's...
15) Deadly safari
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English
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"Texas Ranger Alex Markham lands an unusual undercover assignment--protecting an ambassador's daughter on the African savanna. For the cowboy-turned-cop, the routine babysitting assignment turns into a lifesaving mission when poachers target the unspecting beauty"--
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Publisher
Golden Gryphon Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 278 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Resnick's avid interest in safaris and Africa are highlighted in this collection of his futuristic hunting stories; several of the stories were directly inspired from his personal stalking of game, with camera and not gun, experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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Choose your own adventure volume 38
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Chooseco
Pub. Date
©2011
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137 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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A safari trip to Kenya leads to a search for one of the rarest animals on Earth, in a book where the reader determines the path and ending of the story.
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"The third book in the Mbuno & Pero series pulls terror from headlines to create a gripping international thriller for readers of The Sandman. Expert safari guide Mbuno and wildlife television producer Pero Baltazar are filming on Lake Rudolf in Northern Kenya, East Africa, when they receive news that Mbuno's son, himself an expert guide, has been kidnapped while on a safari five hundred miles away in Tanzania. After gathering clues and resources...
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"In this breathtaking travel memoir and adventure guide, the legendary founder of the world's premier luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, Geoffrey Kent takes readers on a whirlwind tour around the globe, sharing his best-kept secrets and the story of his success and his life."--provided by publisher.
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