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1) Safari
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Introduces young wildlife enthusiasts to an array of creatures in their natural habitats on the African Savannah.
2) The lioness
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"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 crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests-including Katie's best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor...
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"The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction...Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's masterstorytellers at the top of his form." -- back cover.
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"A new and expanded edition of Peter Allison's hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "Only food runs!" With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide's first-hand account of working in the African bush"--
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Q: Why did the lion spit out the clown?
A: Because he tasted funny!
Peer through your binoculars at this hilarious collection of 140 safari-themed jokes. Young readers will encounter all of their favorite wild animals in The Silly Safari Joke Book, featuring roar-some cartoon illustrations.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Laugh Out Loud is a vibrant and dynamic joke book series for kids. Featuring a variety of exciting themes, these titles build general knowledge...
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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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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 17
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A lion cub is kidnapped while the Thea Sisters visit a Kenyan safari, and they must travel across the savanna to rescue him.
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This is a self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of Hemingway's final African safari to Kenya with his wife, Mary, and son, Patrick. The whole family is caught up in Mary's pursuit of a black-maned lion and Hemingway wants to take Debba, an African girl, as his second bride.
9) Assegai
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Courtney novels volume 12
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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, 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 has...
10) Safari
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Stanley Hastings on safari? He didn't think so, until Alice's small inheritance -- plus scrimping on luxuries like food -- paid for a trip to Zambi. But the safari leader is a reckless, gung-ho, great white hunter, and a series of bizarre accidents dwindles the group's numbers. But were they really accidents? A stabbing tips the scale. It's murder, and the only policeman in a hundred miles is a park ranger. It's up to Stanley to crack the case....
13) Draw!
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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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Hemingway's well-documented fascination with big-game hunting is magnificently captured amidst rich descriptions of the beauty and strangeness of East Africa, where he and his wife, Pauline, journeyed in December of 1933. An impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, this immediate and deeply felt account has all of the hallmarks of the most evocative travel writing.
15) Ambush
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Bodyguard (Chris Bradford) volume 5
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Teenage bodyguard Connor is assigned to protect a French diplomat's family on safari in Africa, but deep in the savanna the journey takes a terrifying turn when their convoy is ambushed by brutal gunmen.
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Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated author Romantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn't always particularly enjoyable or 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...
19) Shalako
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Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....
20) The naked prey
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Criterion collection volume 415
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When a safari group hunting ivory insults an African tribe, they're captured and tortured. The last surviving member is given "the lion's chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors. Naked and weaponless, the man is set loose with the hunters hot on his heels, beginning a life-or-death hunt through Africa.
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