9 best-selling nonfiction books like The Boy from the Wild by Peter Meyer

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Boy from the Wild by Peter Meyer , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife by Kobie Krüger, Kobie Kruger

1. The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife

By: Kobie Krüger , Kobie Kruger

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Everyone warned Kobie Krüger that being the wife of a game warden at a remote ranger station in Sou… read more

Similar categories in Kobie Krüger's The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • africa
  • biography
  • south africa
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
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2. 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 Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

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

3. 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

Similar categories in Gwynn White's Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • travel
  • africa
  • biography
  • nonfiction

4. 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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Similar categories in Peter Allison's Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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5. 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

Similar categories in None's The Elephant Whisperer book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • africa
  • biography
  • nonfiction

6. 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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7. Prospero's Cell

By: Lawrence Durrell

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu. 'One of Lawrence Durrell's best books … read more

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8. The Unexpected Guest : A Novel Out of Africa

By: Samantha Ford

4.39

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

As darkness descends on the bush a child appears at a watering hole opposite a game lodge. The gues… read more

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9. 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

Similar categories in Samantha Ford's The House Called Mbabati: A Novel Out of Africa book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • africa
Cover of Sunrising: The story of a family who chose Africa as their home - The pioneering generation (The Sunrising Series Book 1) by Susan Hubert

10. Sunrising: The story of a family who chose Africa as their home - The pioneering generation (The Sunrising Series Book 1)

By: Susan Hubert

4.09

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The sun was rising when they rode out of the gates and up the dust tracks towards the Umguza River.… read more

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11. 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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12. Warrior King

By: Wilbur Smith

4.38

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

South Africa, 1820When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is s… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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 Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • travel
  • africa
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. 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 Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

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

17. 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

Similar categories in Lloyd Temple Camp's Confessions of an African Safari Guide: Truths, Tales and Taboos of the Safari Life book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

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

18. 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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19. 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

Similar categories in Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild book and Peter Meyer's The Boy from the Wild

  • africa
  • biography
  • south africa
  • adventure
  • travel
  • 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

20. 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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Cover of My Life in the Bush by Mark Penney

21. 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

6 best-selling biography books like The Boy from the Wild by Peter Meyer

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The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife

Kobie Krüger , Kobie Kruger

4.46

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Cry of the Kalahari

Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.33

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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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The Elephant Whisperer

None , Graham Spence , Lawrence Anthony

5.00

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None , Graham Spence , Lawrence Anthony

5.00

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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