TRACKS IN THE DUST, a game ranger's journey

261pp., colour illus., paperback, Jonathan Ball, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781776195947

In his autobiography Mario Cesare describes his journey from the kitchen of his family’s Italian restaurant in Johannesburg to his job as a game ranger on the front lines of conservation in some of South Africa’s most prestigious game reserves – Thornybush, Mala Mala, Olifants River – where he worked to protect threatened wildlife, rescued orphaned rhinos and tracked dangerous criminals with his trusted K9 partner, Saba.

Former wildlife manager Mario Cesare is the author of the memoirs Man-eaters, Mambas and Marula Madness, Heart of a Game Ranger and The Man with the Black Dog. He now lives in Cape Town.