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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

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