Suggested Reading
Africa: A Biography of the Continent - John Reader
I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman Flame Trees of Thika - Elspeth Huxley West with the Night - Beryl Markham   The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals - Richard Estes

For enjoyment and interest:

  • 60 Years of Safari
    Miles Bredin (Available c/o Ninian Lowis, Ker & Downey Safaris)
  • On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
    Nick Brandt (Photographer), Alice Sebold, Jane Goodall (Introduction)
  • Nine Faces of Kenya
    by Elspeth Huxley/Viking Penguin
  • A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
    by Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen, Mark Hannon (Illustrator)
  • Scramble for Africa
    Thomas Pakenham
  • Africa: A biography of the Continent
    by John Reader
  • West with the Night
    by Beryl Markham
  • I Dreamed of Africa
    by Kuki Gallman
  • Flame Trees of Thika
    By Elspeth Huxley
  • The Marsh Lions
    by Brian Jackman, Jonathan Scott (Illustrator)
  • Green Hills of Africa
    by Ernest Hemingway, Edward Shenton (Illustrator)
  • Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure
    by Bartle Bull
  • Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behavior in East Africa
    by Cynthia Moss
  • The Leopard's Tale
    by Jonathan Scott
  • The White Nile
    by Alan Moorehead
  • One Life
    by Richard Leakey
  • Bwana Game
    by George Adamson

Books for kids:

  • Any of the series of folk tales by Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway - our favourite for younger kids!
  • Born Free
    by Joy Adamson
  • An Elephant called Eleanor
    by Daphne Sheldrick
  • The Warrior and The Moon – Spirit of the Maasai
    by Nick Would and Evie Safarewicz
  • When Bat was a Bird and other Animal Tales from Africa
    byNick Greaves
  • We all went on Safari, A counting Journey through Tanzania
    by Laurie Kreb and Julia Cairns
  • My Christmas Safari
    by Fran Manushkin


Field Guides (We will have copies of these as wel as other titles avalibale for use while on safari in the safari vehicles)

  • A Field Guide to the Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania
    by Dale Zimmerman, David, Don Pearson, Doug Pratt, Ian Willis
  • The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates
    by Richard D. Estes, Daniel Otte (Illustrator)
  • Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa: All the Reptiles of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi
    by Stephen Spawls, Kim Howell, James Ashe, Robert Drewes
  • Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa
    by Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe
  • The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals
    by Jonathon Kingdon

These books (including those that are out of print) are availabe at Amazon.com and/or Barnes and Noble online book stores.


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