Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African by Mark James Owens, Cordelia Dykes Owens

By Mark James Owens, Cordelia Dykes Owens

During this riveting real-life event, Mark and Delia Owens inform the dramatic tale in their final years in Africa, battling to save lots of elephants, villagers, and -- in spite of everything -- themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their paintings within the distant and ruggedly attractive Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population’s restoration after poaching, gaining knowledge of extraordinary similarities among people and elephants. a tender elephant named reward supplied the clue to assist them crack the animals’ mystery of survival. A stirring portrait of existence in Africa, secrets and techniques of the Savanna is a notable list of the Owenses' certain passions.

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