Suggested Safari Reading?
 

Hi All - I'd like to bring a few good books with me on safari to Kenya & Tanzania later this year. Any suggestions for some good/interesting/entertaining books pertaining to Africa for safari? Thanks!

P.S. Right now I am reading The Language of the Land: Living Among the Hadzabe in Africa by James Stephenson - about a guy from NY who goes to live with the Hadzabe in Lake Eyasi for a year - very good book and I will be staying at Lake Eyasi for a couple of nights so even more interesting to me now!

Hi,

I'd suggest the following titles, all set in Kenya

Bennum, David - Tick bite fever (autobiography of growing up in Nairobi during the 1980s)

Keating, Barbara and Stephanie - Blood sisters (novel)

Atwood, Melinda - Jambo Mama (autobiography of life in Nairobi for this ex-pat)

Any novels by Frank Coates

Kuki Galllman's books of her life in Laikipia

Maathai, Wangari - Unbowed : one woman's story (Interesting autobiography of the Kenyan founder of the Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace Prize winner)

Paine, Katy - The Sound of thunder (Life and research among the Amboseli elephants)

Poole, Joyce - Coming of age with elephants (similar to above)

Ricciardi, Mirella - African story (autobiography of this interesting African family)

Ridgeway, Rick - Shadow of Kilimanjaro (an exciting overland trek from the mountain to the sea)

and these set in Tanzania

Grzimek, Bernhard - Serengeti shall not die

Douglas-Hamilton, Iain - Among the elephants (Life and research among Lake Manyara's elephants)

Packer, Craig - Into Africa (Life and research among the Serengeti lions)

You might also like to try Peter Godwin's books and the Zanzibar Chest by Adrian Hartley

Happy reading,

Pol.

Out of Africa

Last King of Scotland

Gorillas in the Mist

Blood Diamond

IMAX: Serengeti
IMAX: Kilimanjaro

(movies, I know)

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (book)


Steve

For a practical book to use on safari, I would recommend Mark Nolting's "African Safari Journal." It's a great planning resource with tons of helpful information all in one book. You can keep a journal in it while you're on safari, as well.

I also enjoyed "Language of the Land." Are you going out hunting with the Hadzabe? Be prepared for a LONG hike! I'm not in shape, but survived it. They were quite patient with the 6 of us.

HARRY POTTER