Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters With Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, And Lovesick Rhinos

by Allison, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781599214696
• ISBN10: 1599214695
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated author Romantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn't always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praisedWhatever You Do, Don't Rundetails his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but also in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibiaplaces he loves, despite how much it feels like they might just be trying to kill him. InDon't Look Behind You, Allison recounts adventures few would live to tell. Like the time he and a group of bored guides launched a makeshift raft into a foaming, flooded river teeming with hippos and crocodiles. 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.

Author Biography

Peter Allison is the author of Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide (Lyons Press). In 1994 he set off for a year-long stay in Africa that turned into years in the bush. His safaris have been ­featured in National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, and on television programs such as Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures. He divides his time between Australia, California, and Botswana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Three Little Pigs	p. 1
Stay Calm, but Move Fast	p. 7
Titus and the Chameleons	p. 17
Lights at Night	p. 25
Two Mpondo	p. 31
Lollipop	p. 37
A Kinky Tail	p. 51
The Giggler	p. 61
Welcome to Botswana	p. 73
The Water War	p. 82
Nuts	p. 92
Sad Snake	p. 98
Speaking Monkey	p. 103
The Wrong Elephant	p. 108
Busted	p. 121
Exile to an Island	p. 141
Baboon People	p. 159
Five Nights with Stompie	p. 175
Voyages in the Coffin	p. 188
Twelve Paces	p. 198
Hunted	p. 205
The Okavango Detox Disaster	p. 213
Cat and Mouse	p. 220
Don't Ask for Red Drum	p. 228
Epilogue	p. 240
About the Author	p. 241
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