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Cry of the Kalahari

Seven years of wildlife research immerse two naturalists in Botswana's central Kalahari, where isolation brings extraordinary encounters with animals.

Nature memoir

Mating

Norman Rush

An American anthropologist falls for the founder of a Kalahari community for women, where romance and utopian ambition become inseparable.

Literary fiction

Under African Sun

Marianne Alverson

Family routines reveal a changing Botswana as Marianne Alverson discovers how making a home can illuminate an unfamiliar society.

Memoir

Whites

Norman Rush

Expatriates and foreign service workers in Botswana discover how good intentions can turn into farce, misunderstanding and unexpected tragedy.

Short stories

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