14 Best nonfiction books like My Life in the Bush by Mark Penney

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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…

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1. Peony

By: Pearl S. Buck

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid -- an awkward role in which she is … read more

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2. 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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3. 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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4. Sabi Star

By: Susan Hubert

3.45

Format: None pages,

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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

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6. 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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7. 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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8. 101 Kruger Tales: Extraordinary Stories from Ordinary Visitors to the Kruger National Park

By: Mark Boucher , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

GRIPPING FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTINGS, SCRAPES AND INCIDENTS IN ONE OF AFRICA'S G… read more

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9. Alligators Eat Marshmallows (And Other Things I Learned On My 10,000 Mile Road Trip Around The USA!): A Comedy Memoir

By: Tony James Slater

4.46

Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition

“Show me America!” he cried out to the people. “Okay,” they replied, their voices a roar… “You aske… read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. A Long Time Dead (The Misty Isle, #1)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

You can’t stay dead forever… A group of high school students gather on the Isle of Skye’s remote C… read more

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13. Unchained: One Woman, One Bike, One Dream... One World

By: Rubina Soorty

4.38

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the shortest way across the street involves going around the world. Ruby has never cycled… read more

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14. Through Sand & Snow: a man, a bicycle, and a 43,000-mile journey to adulthood via the ends of the Earth

By: Charlie Walker

4.48

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Aged twenty-two, Charlie Walker left home in search of adventure. Fleeing the boredom that comes wi… read more

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"I was a young man wanting to slay dragons, but I'd grown up swaddled and in a post-dragon world."

-Charlie Walker, Through Sand & Snow: a man, a bicycle, and a 43,000-mile journey to adulthood via the ends of the Earth

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15. On Roads That Echo: A bicycle journey through Asia and Africa

By: Charlie Walker

4.55

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

★★★★★ "A true adventure in every sense. Superbly written" ★★★★★ "Just a stunningly good hardcore tr… read more

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16. Outback

By: Aaron Fletcher

4.33

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick Garrity started life as the bastard son of a female convict. Unwanted and unloved, he was b… read more

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17. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

By: Joan M. Griffin

4.44

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, an… read more

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18. 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

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19. Elephants Are People Too: More Tales from the African bush

By: Brian Connell

4.39

Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition

Elephants Are People Too (EAPT), picks up where M&M ends off, and focuses more on the highly entert… read more

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20. 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

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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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Cover of The Rhino Crash: A Memoir of Conservation, Unlikely Friendships and Self-Discovery by Nick Newman

24. The Rhino Crash: A Memoir of Conservation, Unlikely Friendships and Self-Discovery

By: Nick Newman

4.19

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Catapulted into the grim world of rhino poaching, Nick Newman trades life in London for a humble, y… read more

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25. Cries of the Savanna: An adventure. An awakening. A journey to understanding African wildlife conservation

By: Sue Tidwell

4.09

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

Her first night in a Tanzanian tent began with a prowling lion’s roar. Will the savage terrors open… read more

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26. One of Them: My Life Among the Maasai of Kenya

By: Eti Dayan

4.35

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A unique look into one of the most fascinating tribes in Africa, through Western eyes. Eti Dayan, r… 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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Cover of My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover (Part of the Africa Tales Series) by Teresa O'Kane

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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29. In the Beginning of the Night

By: Peter Rimmer

3.70

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The perfect safari. Or the perfect deception?Suave and debonaire Mark Dacks has garnered together a… read more

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30. One Chance: Tales from the African bush

By: Brian Connell

4.21

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book about Nokuthula, bringing the adventure, the humour and the pathos experienced while… read more

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31. 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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4.41

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4.31

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4.44

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4.32

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