The Lions and Elephants of the Chobe: Botswana's Untamed Wilderness

by Bruce Aiken

A photographic portrayal of the Chobe National Park in Botswana and its inhabitants. It includes accounts of lion hunts at night, and insights into the personalities and efficient social systems of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0869772716
• ISBN13: 9780869772713
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Book Sales
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Disturbing Beauty

The best book on the wildest of wild African game. This is a handsome book which takes the reader through perhaps the most densely populated big game reserve in Africa. The Chobe and Savuti are synonyms for wonderous African wildlife, and it's all here, in a text that is powerful and gripping in its expose of the lions' lordship over eveything (including hippo and elephants - this is a very good examination of the misunderstood and half-believed stories that some lions routinely hunt the mega-game successfully)and the struggles of all to survive the caprices of the drought and unseasonal rains. There has not been a more intelligent and thorough description of the hunting techniques of lions. Be warned that the author's text and pictorial evidence of kills are unsentimental and make no attempt to play to the fantasies of lions efficiently killing with one sweep of a paw or expertly breaking the neck of prey. The buffalo and lion confrontations are very well documented. The Savuti lions customarily take on the belligerent bulls, unlike their cousins in other parts of Africa, and the writing spares no detail and respects the intelligence and curiosity of the reader. All in all, the next best thing to a safari