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Bitter roots: the ends of a Kalahari myth is set in Nyae-Nyae, a region of Namibia located in southern Africa's Kalahari desert, traditional home of the Ju/'hoansi. It updates the ethnographic film record begun in the 1950s by John Marshall, whose films documented 50 years of change, and who together with Claire Ritchie, established a grass-roots development foundation, which Adrian Strong (the filmmaker) joined in the late 1980s. Shot in 2007, two...
2) Kalahari
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"Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret. But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide"--
5) Five tribes
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Course of empire volume 2
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"Countdown to Doomsday: The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself--entering a host's body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military's breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing...
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In the southern Kalahari area of Botswana-an arid landscape of legends that speak of lost cities, hidden wealth, and ancient gods-a fractious ranger named Monzo is found dying from a severe head wound in a dry ravine. Three Bushmen surround the doomed man, but are they his killers or there to help? Detective David "Kubu" Bengu is on the case, an investigation that his old school friend Khumanego claims is motivated by racist antagonism on the part...
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Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate, as he struggles to train and connect with rookie local cops, Ghaap and Pyl, who resent his brusqueness and his old-school ways. A beautiful and eccentric...
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A chartered plane crashes in a remote African desert after colliding with a swarm of locusts. It's not the harsh surroundings or the vicious baboons that the survivors have to worry about, but a crazed fellow passenger. The stellar cast includes Stuart Whitman as a businessman and big-game hunter, Stanley Baker as a chain-smoking and alcoholic mining engineer, Susannah York as a beautiful young divorcee, Nigel Davenport as the plane's captain, and...
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This colorful book describes the geological makeup and history of the Kalahari Desert in Africa. Covering most of Botswana, as well as portions of Namibia and South Africa, the Kalahari is not a true desert because it receives more than ten inches (250 mm) of rain each year. But the rain drains and evaporates quickly leaving no water on the surface of the red sand. Readers will learn about the variety of habitats in this vast desert system that support...
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In the second season, the meerkat clan know as the Whiskers will face dramatic new challenges in their struggle for dominance and survival amid the dangers of the Kalahari Desert. With cutting-edge technology capturing every meerkat moment above and below ground, witness the Whiskers tangling with old enemies-- and confronting a dangerous new rival meerkat gang. Then, when a fresh generation of mischief-making pups arrives on the scene, it adds a...
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In this season, attacked, defeated and evicted from their burrow by a powerful rival mob, the suddenly homeless Whiskers struggle to start again in a new territory. Now, under the resourceful leadership of their matriarch Flower, the tribe will experience heartbreaking losses and unexpected romances, will wage an on-going battle with the ferocious Zappa tribe, and will face an equally fierce onslaught from the Kalahari's deadly elements.
12) The meerkats
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An inspiring look at how one family's connection to each other and their surroundings is a model of resilience and fortitude for us all. The story features the coming of age of a young meerkat pup, Kolo, growing up in the Kalahari desert.
16) Desert danger
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Wild rescue volume 8
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Ben and Zoe travel to the Kalahari Desert in Namibia to rescue a lion cub who has fallen down a well, but a sandstorm threatens to overwhelm them before they can get the cub back to its pride.
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Animals of Africa volume 1
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Meet the king of the jungle and the fastest animal on earth. When the sun goes down, the lions wake up and fear creeps over the vast savannah. Then race the Kalahari cheetah as the fastest animal on earth hunts at speeds of eighty miles an hour.
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Natural killers predators close-up volume 10
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Follows the daily life of one female leopard as she raises her first litter of cubs in the challenging terrain of the Kalahari Desert.
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