The wilderness family : at home with Africa's wildlife /

Everyone warned Kobie Kruger that being the wife of a game warden at a remote ranger station in South Africa's largest national park would be an arduous move. Heat, malaria and man-eating wild animals would be constant companions. Yet the years she spent there were the most magical of her life.

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Main Author: Krüger, Kobie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2001.
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