Essential Reading List
Our Camp Library includes a selection of the best guidebooks (Birds, Mammals, Plants, Insects, and Reptiles), as well as classics of East African history and literature. Here are a few of our favorite books – still available – which you may wish to have for your personal library. Enjoy! – Don Young
- Faces of Africa by Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher,
- Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
- Nice Faces of Kenya by Elspeth Huxley
- West With the Night by Beryl Markham
- The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller
- The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
- Elephant Memories by Cynthia Moss
- The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
- Fifty Shades of Khaki by Donald Young (just kidding)
- Chadwick, Douglas, The Fate of the Elephant
- Croze, Harvey, Pyramids of Life
- Dowden, Richard, Africa, Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
- Estes, Richard, The Behavior Guide to African Mammals
- Fitzjohn, Tony, Born Wild
- Gallmann, Kuki, I Dreamed of Africa
- Huxley, Elspeth, Out in the Midday Sun
- Johanson, Don, Lucy’s Legacy
- Kingdon, Jonathan, African Mammals
- Matthieson, Peter, The Tree Where Man was Born
- Meredith, Martin, The Fate of Africa
- Paice, Edward, Tip and Run
- Prettejohn, Michael, Endless Horizons
- Reader, John, Africa, The Biography of a Continent
- Root, Alan, Ivory, Apes, & Peacocks
- Stevenson, Terry, and John Fanshawe, Birds of East Africa
- Tattersall, Ian, Masters of the Planet
Highly Recommended Coffee Table Books
- Beckwith, Carol, Maasai
- Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher, African Ceremonies
- Coulson, David and Alec Campbell, African Rock Art
- Johanson, Don, From Lucy to Language
- Pavitt, Nigel, Kenya, The Making of a Country
