Cry of the Kalahari other African carnivores. "Cry of the Kalahari" is the personal story of the Owens' encounters with these and a myriad of other animals and depicts their own struggle to live and work in such an inhospitable and unforgiving environment. "Cry of the Kalahari" was a national and international bestseller, translated into seven languages and is the 1985 John Burroughs Medal winner. Cry of the Kalahari Cry of the Kalahari (1984) is an autobiographical book detailing two young American zoologists, Mark and Delia Owens, and their experience studying wildlife in the Kalahari desert in Botswana in the mid-1970s. There they lived
The Desert Sun The Desert Sun The Desert Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Palm Springs and the surrounding Coachella Valley in Southern California. It is owned by Gannett publications since 1988 and acquired the Indio "Daily News" in 1990 to become the sole local newspaper. First issued on August 5, 1927, as a weekly six-page newspaper, "The Desert Sun" grew with the desert communities. It covers local, state, national and world news, and has developed a variety of sections over time. The newspaper began to publish six days a week in 1948 and had their first Sunday edition on September 8,