12 must-read memoir books like Msomi and Me by Brian Connell

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Msomi and Me

By: Brian Connell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the pen of conservationist, Brian Connell, comes the story of two men from different worlds un…

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1. Cry of the Kalahari

By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.33

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied u… read more

Similar categories in Mark Owens's Cry of the Kalahari book and Brian Connell's Msomi and Me

  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • wildlife
"For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

"I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

"The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

"Especially after our Makgadikgadi experiences, we were very aware that the two absolute essentials for survival in the Kalahari were water and the truck."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

Cover of The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures by None, Graham Spence

2. The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

By: None , Graham Spence

4.31

Format: None pages,

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was o… read more

Similar categories in None's The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures book and Brian Connell's Msomi and Me

  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness by Mark  Owens, Delia Owens

3. The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness

By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

After being expelled from Botswana for writing their controversial bestseller Cry of the Kalahari, … read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise by Gwynn White, Andrew St. Pierre

4. Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise

By: Gwynn White , Andrew St. Pierre

4.06

Format: None pages,

A humorous romp through the African wilds . . . Tired of mortgage and car payments, thirty-somethin… read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

5. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide

By: Peter Allison

3.66

Format: 336 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. The Elephant Whisperer

By: None , Graham Spence , Lawrence Anthony

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants… read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya by Nicholas Best

7. Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya

By: Nicholas Best

3.83

Format: None pages,

The definitive story of the British in Kenya, from the explorer Joseph Thomson, whose exploits insp… read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction

8. Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town

By: Teresa O'Kane

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR OF 2012. Teresa O'Kane had always longed to see the world. … read more

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9. Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos

By: Peter Allison

3.99

Format: None pages,

Join Peter Allison for a riveting, rollicking, behind-the-scenes dose of everyone's dream experienc… read more

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10. Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

By: None , Graham Spence

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate o… read more

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11. How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America

By: Peter Allison

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the… read more

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12. A Gathering of Dust: A Novel Out of Africa

By: Samantha Ford

4.15

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

A Novel Out of Africa Through the mists of a remote and dangerous part of the South African coastli… read more

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  • africa
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13. The House Called Mbabati: A Novel Out of Africa

By: Samantha Ford

4.54

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Samantha Ford's long awaited 2nd novel The House Called Mbabati another story out of Africa… read more

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  • africa
Cover of Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir by Farah Naz Rishi

14. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir book and Brian Connell's Msomi and Me

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. A Widow In Waiting : A Novel Out of Africa

By: Samantha Ford

4.53

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

An accident in the Kenyan bush claims the life of Sir David Cooper, theDirector of International Tr… read more

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Cover of An Elephant in My Kitchen by Françoise Malby-Anthony

16. An Elephant in My Kitchen

By: Françoise Malby-Anthony

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A blonde, chic Parisienne, Francoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game … read more

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  • africa
  • wildlife
  • south africa
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Hidden in Full View: A Novel Out of Africa

By: Samantha Ford

4.36

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

An unsigned painting of an isolated farmhouse in the vastness of the South African Free State found… read more

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18. From Under A Mango Tree

By: Alan Fagan

4.71

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

“This story based on actual events is authentic, powerful, achingly beautiful and sad, and often br… read more

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19. The Elephants of Thula Thula (Elephant Whisperer, 3)

By: Françoise Malby-Anthony

4.45

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Françoise Malby-Anthony's The Elephants of Thula Thula is the story about an extraordinary herd of … read more

Similar categories in Françoise Malby-Anthony's The Elephants of Thula Thula (Elephant Whisperer, 3) book and Brian Connell's Msomi and Me

  • africa
  • wildlife
  • south africa
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two) by Terence Robertson

20. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Terence Robertson

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tea, Scones, and Malaria: A memoir of growing up in Africa by Katlynn Brooke

21. Tea, Scones, and Malaria: A memoir of growing up in Africa

By: Katlynn Brooke

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Hilarious, touching, raw, and deeply honest, this memoir records the journey from child to teenager… read more

Similar categories in Katlynn Brooke's Tea, Scones, and Malaria: A memoir of growing up in Africa book and Brian Connell's Msomi and Me

  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Msomi and Me by Brian  Connell

22. Msomi and Me

By: Brian Connell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the pen of conservationist, Brian Connell, comes the story of two men from different worlds un… read more

Similar categories in Brian Connell's Msomi and Me book and Brian Connell's Msomi and Me

  • africa
  • wildlife
  • south africa
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Confessions of an African Safari Guide: Truths, Tales and Taboos of the Safari Life by Lloyd Temple Camp

23. Confessions of an African Safari Guide: Truths, Tales and Taboos of the Safari Life

By: Lloyd Temple Camp

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

So, who is the jeep-jockey in the khaki uniform and the sweat-stained hat, this person you entrust … read more

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  • africa
  • south africa
Cover of Africa Bites: Scrapes and escapes in the African Bush by Lloyd Camp

24. Africa Bites: Scrapes and escapes in the African Bush

By: Lloyd Camp

4.11

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Africa can be scary. And thrilling. Often, that's the same thing! Lloyd Camp takes you on an evocat… read more

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  • africa
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25. The Boy from the Wild

By: Peter Meyer

3.99

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

An Adventure story never told, until now. Peter Meyer grew up on an African game reserve. His idyl… read more

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  • africa
  • south africa
  • nonfiction
Cover of To Africa And Back: A True Story of a Life Held Captive by the Wild Places of Africa (Torn Trousers Book 2) by Andrew St. Pierre White

26. To Africa And Back: A True Story of a Life Held Captive by the Wild Places of Africa (Torn Trousers Book 2)

By: Andrew St. Pierre White

3.63

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Brave enough for an African adventure? “Pay attention, boy!” came the command from across the class… read more

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27. My Life in the Bush

By: Mark Penney

4.23

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

“Could it happen to me?” This is a question that most, if not all field guides ask themselves soone… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover (Part of the Africa Tales Series)

By: Teresa O'Kane

4.69

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A story of love, loss, and Land Rovers. Travel from Cape Town to Northern Kenya and back with the a… read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Turn Left at the Zebra: Excitement and Danger on a Magical African Safari by Colin Hayvice

29. Turn Left at the Zebra: Excitement and Danger on a Magical African Safari

By: Colin Hayvice

3.90

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go on an African Safari? Travel alongside the autho… read more

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  • africa
Cover of The Full Moon Rises at Sunset: The story of a family who chose Africa as their home - the post Independence generation (The Sunrising Series Book 3) by Susan Hubert

30. The Full Moon Rises at Sunset: The story of a family who chose Africa as their home - the post Independence generation (The Sunrising Series Book 3)

By: Susan Hubert

4.07

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone stopped talking to look westward and watch the sun setting. At first it was a bright, glow… read more

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31. Scent of Fear

By: Tony Park

4.11

Format: None pages, ebook

Afghanistan veteran Sean Bourke's world explodes when an IED detonates in South Africa's Sabi Sand … read more

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  • africa

16 Best nonfiction books like Msomi and Me by Brian Connell

Transform Your Habits

Cry of the Kalahari

Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

None , Graham Spence

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness

Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise

Gwynn White , Andrew St. Pierre

4.06

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16 Top nonfiction books like An Elephant in My Kitchen by Françoise Malby-Anthony

Transform Your Habits

Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness

Sharon Pincott

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Cry of the Kalahari

Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

None , Graham Spence

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness

Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.29

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