Instead of the earth-shattering growls of the king of beasts, a close companion during her years in the wild, Kruger hears the whirr of cash registers racking up sales for her gripping book - a kind of Born Free of the new millennium. The bushes come alive with snorts and grunts and snarls that can scare a human half to death.īut lately life sounds different in the ears of Kobie Kruger, author of the The Wilderness Family, a best-seller in her native South Africa and released for the first time in North America last week.
Twilight is brief and darkness falls fast on the largest wild animal reserve in South Africa, whose vastness would fill Wales. A leopard nightly patrols the neighbourhood populated by elephants and hippos, baboons and lions and, in a modest buttercup-yellow house, a popular memoirs writer, her game warden husband and their three blonde daughters.
In a remote ranger station in a faraway corner of South Africa’s Kruger National Park that slithers along the border of Mozambique, bushbucks and monkeys are regular visitors.
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