Survivor's Song, by Delia and Mark Owens (used)

Survivor's Song, by Delia and Mark Owens (used)The sequel to "Cry of the Kalahari", this book takes up where the first began, with the Owenses returning to the Kalahari to continue their study of elephants. After deportation because of their open criticism of the government's soft stance on wildlife conservation, they find their way back to their research station to discover the remains of hundreds of poached elephants. Thus they begin a long struggle to raise consciousness about preservation

The heart of the book takes place in West Africa inside the Ivory Coast—the world’s leading producer of cocoa beans—where

collections of poems and scholarly works

You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death til it mek you dizzy

Ungumsunguli we-Idea Architects

leaving any concern for his education by the wayside

They reach a new land

Muthu u do kona hani u fhambanya hani dembe la vhukuma la vhutshilo arali vha songo guda nga ha manditi a bvaho kha dzingano

painful but quite often funny

His mother dies just before he passes Grade 9 and a monster arrives at the house - his aunt's boyfriend

‚ Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

An intimate and deeply personal book

of a father