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“There’s no sky as big as this one anywhere else in the world. It hangs over you, like some kind of gigantic umbrella, and takes your breath away. You are flattened between the immensity of the air above you and the solid ground. It’s all around you, 360 degrees: sky and earth one the aerial reflection of the other.” —Francesca Marciano

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Africa in my Blood, Jane Goodall, 2000 — Autobiography of the author in Kenya.

Coming of Age with Elephants: A Memoir, Joyce Poole, 1996 — This fascinating account of an elephant specialist’s work in Kenya over more than a decade is also a very personal tale of a woman’s struggle with sexism, violence and the conservation crisis, particularly as it effects her beloved elephants.

Emma’s War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil: A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan, Deborah Scroggins, 2002. — A fascinating account of an idealistic young British woman who went to the Sudan as a relief worker and married a rebel warlord...

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