| Edition |
New and expanded edition |
| Descript |
xiii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : color illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Previous edition: 2008 |
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Edition statement from page 4 of cover |
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A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: only food runs! With a new introduction and new material from the author 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 pride of lions. No one could make up these outrageous-but-true tales: the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more fashionable hot pink ensemble; the lost tourist who happened to be drunk, half-naked, and a member of the British royal family; establishing a real friendship with the continent's most vicious animal; the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it; and spending a crazy night in the wild after blowing a tire on a tour bus |
| Content |
Innehåll: 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 -- A Line in the Sand -- Epilogue |
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Allison, Peter
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Safari guides -- Botswana -- Biography
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Safaris -- Botswana -- Anecdotes
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Safaris -- Botswana
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Safari
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Botswana
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Biografi
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| Classmark |
916.88304/32092 B
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780762796472 |
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0762796472 |
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