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02 December 2008
Safari: The Illusive Leopard!
The Leopard is one of the more illusive animals to spot (no pun intended) on a safari. We got very lucky and managed to see this beauty on a rare daytime walk about. Normally they hunt at night and sleep during the day.
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53. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 6/22/09
52. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley 6/21/09
51. For the Love of Letters - Samara O'Shea 6/18/09
50. Consequences - Penelope Lively 6/18/09
49. A Meeting by the River - Christopher Isherwood 6/16/09
48. The Masters - C.P. Snow 6/13/09
47. The Children - Edith Wharton 6/13/09
46. Alice Waters & Chez Panisse - Thomas McNamee 6/9/09
45. Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips 6/2/09
44. No Signposts in the Sea - Vita Sackville-West 5/31/09
43. Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark 5/28/09
42. Skinned Alive - Edmund White 5/23/09
41. The House by the Sea - May Sarton 5/17/09
40. Journal of Solitude - May Sarton 5/7/09
39. The Ten Year Nap - Meg Wolizter 5/1/09
38. Clea - Lawrence Durrell 4/27/09
37. Anything for Jane - Cheryl Mendelson 4/25/09
36. The Only Problem - Muriel Spark 4/24/09
35. The Ice Age - Margaret Drabble 4/23/09
34. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse 4/15/09
33. The Warm Feeling - Merle Miller 4/13/09
32. On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin 4/11/09
31. Harriet Hume - Rebecca West 4/8/09
30. All the Stops - Craig R. Whitney 4/6/09
29. Jacob's Hands - Huxley & Isherwood 4/3/09
28. A Jest of God - Margaret Laurence 3/29/09
27. Slightly Chipped - Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone 3/28/09
26. Di and I - Peter Lefcourt 3/27/09
25. The Innocent - Ian McEwan 3/25/09
24. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde 3/24/09
23. Hotel de Dream - Edmund White 3/18/09
22. Flashman - George Fraser MacDonald 3/16/09
21. The Peppered Moth - Margaret Drabble 3/15/09
20. Our Paris - Edmund White and Hubert Sorin 3/11/09
19. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country - Ken Kalfus 3/10/09
18. The King is Dead - Jim Lewis 3/5/09
17. Rise and Shine - Anna Quindlen 3/1/09
16. The Inn at Lake Devine - Elinor Lipman 2/24/09
15. The Godmother - Carrie Adams 2/23/09
14. Eisenhower - Geoffrey Perret 2/18/09
13. The Woody - Peter Lefcourt 2/11/09
12. Mr Phillips - John Lanchester 2/9/09
11. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut 1/31/09
10. The Seven Stairs - Stuart Brent 1/28/09
9. On the Water - HM Van Den Brink 1/27/09
8. Love, Work, Children - Cheryl Mendelson 1/25/09
7. Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter 1/23/09
6. The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence 1/21/09
5. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 1/11/09
4. The Trick of It - Michael Frayn 1/8/09
3. The London Scene - Virginia Woolf 1/4/09
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59. Ghost Town - Patrick McGrath 12/29/08
58. Kinds of Love - May Sarton 12/23/08
57. Supreme Courtship - Christopher Buckley 12/17/08
56. Spending - Mary Gordon 12/16/08
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47. Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico 10/2/08
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45. The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald 9/29/08
44. The Deal - Peter Lefcourt 9/14/08
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28. The Evidence of Things Not Seen - James Baldwin 6/25/08
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26. When the Nines Roll Over - David Benioff 6/22/08
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19. Spring Fever - P.G. Wodehouse 5/23/08
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67. The Clothes They Stood Up In - Alan Bennett 11/10/07
66. In the City of Fear - Ward Just 11/10/07
65. Plane Insanity - Elliott Hester 11/7/07
64. Osprey Island - Thisbe Nissen 11/3/07
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62. Run - Ann Patchett 10/27/07
61. Grief - Andrew Holleran 10/24/07
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59. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan 10/22/07
58. The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud 10/20/07
57. London: A History - A.N. Wilson 10/8/07
56. The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster 9/20/07
55. My Sister Life - F.D. Reeve 9/29/07
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53. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson 9/11/07
52. Trafficking in Old Books - Anthony Marshall 9/8/07
51. The Sea - John Bainville 8/25/07
50. The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington - Brian Francis 8/22/07
49. The Needle's Eye - Margaret Drabble 8/19/07
48. Wish - Melina Gerosa Bellows 8/16/07
47. Surrender, Dorothy - Meg Wolitzer 7/29/07
46. Palladian - Elizabeth Taylor 7/26/07
45. The Abbess of Crewe - Muriel Spark 7/25/07
44. Book Doctor - Esther Cohen 7/22/07
43. Native Son - Richard Wright 7/19/07
42. The Inner Voice - Renee Fleming 7/16/07
41. Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley 7/16/07
40. The Body of Jonah Boyd - David Leavitt 7/1/07
39. Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time - L. Auchincloss 7/1/07
38. The Mandelbaum Gate - Muriel Spark 7/1/07
37. Remembering Babylon - David Malouf 6/25/07
36. Loveless Love - Luigi Pirandello 6/25/07
35. When the World Was Steady - Claire Messud 6/24/07
34. Apple of My Eye - Helene Hanff 6/12/07
33. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff 6/10/07
32. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff 6/9/07
31. Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs 6/7/07
30. Out of Time - Paula Martinac 6/6/07
29. A Word Child - Iris Murdoch 6/4/07
28. The Big Money - John Dos Passos 5/30/07
27. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence 5/23/07
26. Dirty Snow - Georges Simenon 5/20/07
25. A Guide to Elegance - Genevieve Antoine Dariaux 5/8/07
24. A Nervous Splendor - Frederic Morton 5/8/07
23. Imagined London - Anna Quindlen 5/8/07
22. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt 5/5/07
21. If You Lived Here... - Sandra Tsing Loh 4/27/07
20. I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe 4/20/07
19. Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman 4/14/07
18. The Kitchen Boy - Robert Alexander 4/12/07
17. The Hunters - Claire Messud 4/5/07
16. A Simple Tale - Claire Messud 4/5/07
15. The Concert Pianist - Conrad Williams 4/1/07
14. Publish and Perish - James Hynes 3/6/07
13. Mountolive - Lawrence Durrell 2/27/07
12. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen 2/16/07
11. A Family Trust - Ward Just 2/8/07
10. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous 2/4/07
9. Palladian Days - Sally & Carl Gable 2/2/07
8. The Wife - Meg Wolitzer 1/27/07
7. Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark 1/23/07
6. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 1/19/07
5. A Landing on the Sun - Michael Frayn 1/18/07
4. Pastoral - Nevil Shute 1/14/07
3. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan 1/12/07
2. Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene 1/9/07
1. The Perfect Summer - Juliet Nicolson 1/2/07
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