Whatever you do, don't run : true tales of a Botswana safari guide / Peter Allison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allison, Peter.

Safari guides--Botswana--Biography.

Safari guides.

Safaris--Botswana--Anecdotes.

Safaris.

Botswana.

Safaris--Botswana.

Local Subjects:

Safaris--Botswana.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : color illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm

Edition:

New and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2014]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2008.

Edition statement from page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780762796472

0762796472

OCLC:

857803711

Publisher Number:

99972880650