Thomas F Cook: 2 books

After losing her father to illness, schoolteacher Rebecca Over seeks an escape from a stagnant life in small-town Ohio by traveling to Botswana's spectacular Okavango Delta. As her journey takes farther away from civilization, she is awed by both the violence and the beauty of the African wilderness....

Spanning nearly half a century, Illyria is the story of three friends from northern Ohio. Told from Joe's perspective as a 45 year old in Manhattan, Illyria brings together the accidents and incidents of the boys' lives, reconstructing the events that led to a tragic end for one of his oldest friends.