A long time ago, I stumbled on an interesting story by a pair of Ph.D students who gathered up all their worldly belongings, and moved to Botswana to study African Lions and hyenas. The adventure drew me to them as I read the story of their lives in Africa. I still have that worn copy, and hardly a year goes by when I am rereading Mark & Delia Owens Cry of the Kalahari.
Likely Stories | June 4, 2020 7:47am
I tracked down a signed, hardback, of Cry, and then came upon Secrets of the Savanna. While not as exciting as Cry, it certainly had loads of interesting stories about Africa, its inhabitants, and above all, the wildlife.
In a prologue by Mark Owens, he wrote: “A heavy fog, thick and white, settled lower over the hills of Masailand in Kenya. I eased off the power and slowed down but pulled back on the cyclic stick, giving up altitude grudgingly. Our chopper’s main rotor tore ragged chunks out of the clouds underbelly and