![]() ![]() Most affecting of all her encounters, however, is her long association with an orphaned lion cub named Leo, whom she and her family raised into adulthood. Among the animals she encounters in the pages of her memoir are enterprising hyenas who, for whatever reason, pilfer cookware and blankets a python that crept into bed with the Krügers on their first night in Mahlangeni Egyptian goslings raised by a proud but broad-minded bantam hen and the occasional ill-tempered elephant. ![]() ![]() In The Wilderness Family, Krüger recounts adventures and misadventures with the curious menagerie that shared her turf-and sometimes her roof-in the remote Mahlangeni section of Kruger National Park, which lies in the river-laced country between South Africa and Mozambique. Longtime animal lover Kobie Krüger got a little more than she bargained for when she married a game warden and moved deep into some of South Africa's wildest country. ![]()
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