Whatever You Do, Don't Run True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

Name: Whatever You Do, Don't Run True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
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ISBN: 9780762745654

ISBN-10: 0762745657

ISBN-13: 9780762745654

Edition: 2007

Authors: Peter Allison

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A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "only food runs!" In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Passionate for the animals of the Kalahari, Allison works as a top safari guide in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. As he serves the whims of his wealthy clients, he often has to stop the impulse to run as far away from them as he can, as these tourists are sometimes more dangerous than a…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Whatever You Do, Don't Run


The Lesson


How I Got My Name


The Great Mouse Plague


Deliverance


Buffalo School


Learning to Walk Again


Princesses and Jacks


Pets


The Drowning


The Chase


The World's Worst Bathroom


Scars


Khama: A Love Story


Bean Goes Back to Nature


Mona Lisa


Bird Nerds


The Fool and the Snake


Lost


The Conversation


A Guide Dies


A Night in the Madgkadigkadi


Ya-ya and Tsetse


A Friend in Hand


Bad Actors


Bale and the Snake


Encounters with Salvador


Big Mistake


Epilogue


About the Author