Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters With Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, And Lovesick Rhinos
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1599214695 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for Whatever You Do, Don't Run:
"Scary but funny" according to Amazon Customer Karen Leitner. I love Peters writin, I laugh out out, and I'm happy at home while I vicariously extract myself from all those pickles he gets himself intoI'm an armchair Safari guide, with all the perks of being at home while he is in the Romehey it's way better than not adventuring at all! I'm a real fan by now and look forwa. Five Stars barbara mah VERY funny writer. I like it a lot.. "Great fun" according to Barbara K. Allison's book allows the reader to escape back to the bush. He is an engaging writer who captures the bush's ever present the smells and sounds and then adds the drama of the "once in a lifetime" wildlife encounter. Especially in his description of a prolonged chase by an enraged female elephant the reader come
But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Or the afternoon he heard monkeys telling him that a leopard was walking around the camp, and then realized the leopard was in his tent, with him in it.In addition to relating his encounters with animals, Allison shares the stories of those tourists who have long been pushing him toward early retirement. Normally respectful of all his fellow creatures no matter how many feet they have, Allison fantasizes about leaving one in particular behind on the Skeleton Coast, a place that receives less than half an inch of rain a year, and is patrolled by lions and hyenas. Join Peter Allison for another riveting, rollicking, behind-the-scenes dose of everyone’s dream experiencegoing on safariand come through amazed but, thankfully, without a scratch.. Like the time he and a group of bored guides launched a makeshift raft into a foaming, flooded river teeming with hippos and crocodiles. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do, Don’t Run details his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but also in South Africa, Mozambiqu