A Wild Estate: Twilight Years in the African Bush, an Intimate Geographies Book by David Muirhead (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781960803603)

Lions on the deck. Warthog butt prints on the walls. Chair yoga at sunset.This is what late-life reinvention looks like for David Muirhead and his wife. At seventy, they traded a manicured coastal home for a cottage deep in the South African bush, just outside Hoedspruit -- the country's self-styled safari capital. After decades of journalism and wildlife writing, Muirhead now lives inside the world he used to observe from a distance.He notices things. That wild animals don't grow old -- they get eaten long before they can be considered geriatric. That an elephant has its own opinions about your morning plans. That a leopard, unhurried, makes its own argument about what really matters at this stage of life.

A Wild Estate is funny, tender, and unsentimental -- a memoir of growing older with the bush watching back.

Author: David Muirhead
ISBN-10: 1960803603
ISBN-13: 9781960803603
Publisher: Catalyst Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2026
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback