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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 285 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.81 — 276,194 ratings — published 1998
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by (shelved 144 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.98 — 60,970 ratings — published 2000
Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
by (shelved 113 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.99 — 46,139 ratings — published 2001
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)
by (shelved 101 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.01 — 42,612 ratings — published 2002
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6)
by (shelved 95 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.10 — 31,105 ratings — published 2004
Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
by (shelved 91 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.06 — 29,974 ratings — published 2006
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10)
by (shelved 90 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,192 ratings — published 2009
The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #11)
by (shelved 88 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,007 ratings — published 2010
The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
by (shelved 83 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,910 ratings — published 2003
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)
by (shelved 81 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.11 — 25,802 ratings — published 2008
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #8)
by (shelved 80 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,933 ratings — published 2007
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #13)
by (shelved 78 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,295 ratings — published 2012
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #12)
by (shelved 74 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.10 — 18,423 ratings — published 2011
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #14)
by (shelved 55 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.13 — 15,927 ratings — published 2013
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15)
by (shelved 49 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,635 ratings — published 2014
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #16)
by (shelved 47 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,297 ratings — published 2015
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,973 ratings — published 2007
A Question of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,132 ratings — published 1973
When Rain Clouds Gather (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,723 ratings — published 1969
White Dog Fell from the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,788 ratings — published 2013
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,954 ratings — published 2008
A Carrion Death (Detective Kubu, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,215 ratings — published 2008
Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #17)
by (shelved 29 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,219 ratings — published 2016
Precious and the Monkeys (Precious Ramotswe's Very First Cases, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,511 ratings — published 2010
The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #18)
by (shelved 25 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,512 ratings — published 2017
How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21)
by (shelved 24 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,708 ratings — published 2020
Cry of the Kalahari (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,720 ratings — published 1984
Call and Response (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.54 — 405 ratings — published 2023
The Colors of All the Cattle (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #19)
by (shelved 21 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,040 ratings — published 2018
The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.90 — 515 ratings — published 1977
To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20)
by (shelved 18 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,883 ratings — published 2019
Death of the Mantis (Detective Kubu, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,583 ratings — published 2011
The Second Death Of Goodluck Tinubu (Detective Kubu, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,184 ratings — published 2009
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23)
by (shelved 15 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,340 ratings — published 2022
Womb City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.21 — 3,070 ratings — published 2018
Mating (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,277 ratings — published 1991
From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)
by (shelved 14 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,232 ratings — published 2023
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #25)
by (shelved 13 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,108 ratings — published 2024
The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
by (shelved 12 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,281 ratings — published 2021
Deadly Harvest (Detective Kubu, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.11 — 802 ratings — published 2013
Far and Beyon' (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.98 — 115 ratings — published 2002
The Lost World of the Kalahari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.99 — 750 ratings — published 1958
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.47 — 2,211 ratings — published 2004
Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11)
by (shelved 10 times as botswana)
avg rating 4.21 — 34,946 ratings — published 2014
Saturday Is for Funerals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.73 — 154 ratings — published 2010
Botswana Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.87 — 367 ratings — published 2006
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,697 ratings — published 1981
The Cleverness of Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #12.6)
by (shelved 8 times as botswana)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,158 ratings — published 2012
“Because of the heat and the lack of water and materials for shelter, much of the Central Kalahari has remained unexplored and unsettled. From our camp there was no village around the corner or down the road. There was no road. We had to haul our water a hundred miles through the bushveld, and without a cabin, electricity, a radio, a television, a hospital, a grocery store, or any sign of other humans and their artifacts for months at a time, we were totally cut off from the outside world.”
― Cry of the Kalahari
― Cry of the Kalahari
“The small town of Kasane stands on the high veld plains of the northern horn of Botswana, a tourist haven shouldering the economy of the small but rich country.
The town is located some one thousand kilometers north-east of the Capital City, Gaborone, with its hard blue skies and river-clear air, Kasane is a piece of paradise in this desert region; a shit-hole for the natives apparently as I was to learn, but still the place is a slice of heaven for tourists coming from outside.
At the center of the small town resides an underrated true wonder of nature. A place called Plateau from which one can observe a pack of lions stalking a herd of Zebras; wildebeests crowded together like bees; a fish eagle splashing against the slow moving river and come out bearing a fighting catfish; herds of elephants and Buffaloes grazing and browsing the green mass of flora that escorts what seems like a coiling dark green phantom.
The entire place below Plateau to the north is a wide array of interconnected channels, caressed on the sides by tall evergreen grass. The true wonder that is the exemplar of the Chobe District.
The gravel to the height of ‘Plateau’ snakes through tall, fat baobab trees rising and falling, offering breathtaking views of the dense ridges, then dipping into creeks filled with clusters of dilapidated shacks and mobile homes with junk cars and abandoned road construction machinery scattered about. It clings to more defined creeks with shallow rapids and water clear enough to drink.”
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The town is located some one thousand kilometers north-east of the Capital City, Gaborone, with its hard blue skies and river-clear air, Kasane is a piece of paradise in this desert region; a shit-hole for the natives apparently as I was to learn, but still the place is a slice of heaven for tourists coming from outside.
At the center of the small town resides an underrated true wonder of nature. A place called Plateau from which one can observe a pack of lions stalking a herd of Zebras; wildebeests crowded together like bees; a fish eagle splashing against the slow moving river and come out bearing a fighting catfish; herds of elephants and Buffaloes grazing and browsing the green mass of flora that escorts what seems like a coiling dark green phantom.
The entire place below Plateau to the north is a wide array of interconnected channels, caressed on the sides by tall evergreen grass. The true wonder that is the exemplar of the Chobe District.
The gravel to the height of ‘Plateau’ snakes through tall, fat baobab trees rising and falling, offering breathtaking views of the dense ridges, then dipping into creeks filled with clusters of dilapidated shacks and mobile homes with junk cars and abandoned road construction machinery scattered about. It clings to more defined creeks with shallow rapids and water clear enough to drink.”
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