Download or read book A Safari Guide S Tales from Zimbabwe written by Gavin Ford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an illustrated collection of short stories and memories of a Zimbabwean Professional Guide who loves what he does! All of the stories are factual accounts, that happened to me, except the one about Alistair Hull, a close colleague. These stories were about incidents that happened to me during the early years of eco-tourism in Zimbabwe, prior to 2000. All of the photographs (except where indicated) were collected by myself at different times during this period, and I have attempted to present them in a sequence similar to the stories.
Download or read book A Safari Guide s Tales from Zimbabwe written by Gavin Ford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Beauty Life and Death in Africa written by Mark C. Ross and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from "one of the most seasoned and skilled safari guides at work in Africa today ... [presenting] his close-hand encounters with danger and natural beauty in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda."--Jacket.
Download or read book Whatever You Do Don t Run written by Peter Allison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!” With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide’s first-hand account of working in the African bush. Allison regales us with stories about confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals and most, terrifying of all, managing herds of gaping tourists run amok. His humor is exceeded only by his love and respect for the animals of the Kalahari. As a top safari guide, he knows he serves the whims of his wealthy clients, yet he often has to stop the impulse to run as far away from them as he can. When this isn’t possible, his goal is to limit any negative exposure to humans by planning trips that are minimally invasive—unfortunately it doesn’t always work out that way. With much good-natured scorn for himself, no one but Peter Allison could make up these outrageous-but-true tales!
Download or read book THIS Is Africa written by Mat Dry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS is Africa is a compilation of stories that defines the maxim "Truth is sometimes stranger, and more wondrous than fiction." From a place known for its continent-wide diversity, notorious for its dramatic turbulence, and beloved for its animals and untamed wildness, Mat Dry brings his incredible, true tales of living and working in Africa as a Safari Guide. Filled with the awe of discovery, heart-break of tragedy, hilarity of compromising situations African-style, and, of course, the love of a place unlike any other on Earth, THIS is Africa will inspire you to kick your Bucket-List and get on the next flight to Capetown or Nairobi...
Download or read book Don t Look Behind You written by Peter Allison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 praised Whatever You Do, Don’t Run details his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but also in South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibia—places he loves, despite how much it feels like they might just be trying to kill him. In Don’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 experience—going on safari—and come through amazed but, thankfully, without a scratch.
Download or read book Whatever You Do Don t Run written by Peter Allison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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, revealing that Allison has as much good-natured scorn for himself. The author’s humor is exceeded only by his love and respect for the animals, and his goal is to limit any negative exposure to humans by planning trips that are minimally invasive—unfortunately it doesn’t always work out that way! Peter Allison is originally from Sydney, Australia. His safaris have been featured in National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, and on television programs such as Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures. He travels frequently to speaking appearances, and splits most of his time between Botswana, Sydney, and San Francisco.
Download or read book African Safari Field Guide written by and published by Global Travel Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zambezi Glory written by Bryan Shiers Orford and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zambezi Glory is a collection of stories from a Zimbabwe professional guide working mainly in different parts of Zimbabwe. The wildlife that are mentioned frequently are Hwange, Mana Pools, Matopos, Victoria Falls, the Zambezi National Park, Matetsi, and the Gona re Zhou. The book has some detail about canoeing the Zambezi. It is a useful guide for both guides and tourists to help get an idea of what to do and not to do while on African safari. There is also some history on the safari guiding in Zimbabwe and the process as to how to become a safari guide. It will help people to appreciate the lifestyle that many guides experience. It is serious, educational, humorous, historical and essential reading.
Download or read book Don t Look Behind You But written by Peter Allison and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another serving of campfire stories - hair-raising and hilarious tales of Africa, animals and close escapes - from Australia's intrepid safari guide Peter Allison, bestselling author of Whatever You Do, Don't Run.
Download or read book Zimbabwe written by Paul Murray and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe Travel Guide - Travel tips and holiday advice including Harare hotels and restaurants, Victoria Falls highlights, national parks, safaris and reserves. Also features suggested itineraries and routes, wildlife tracking, Hwange National Park, Lake Kariba, Mana Pools, Gonarezhou National Park, ancient history in Great Zimbabwe and Khami.
Download or read book The Last Safari written by Bruce Vanbuskirk and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINE MADNESS is about a creative spirit's struggle for survival in an analytical society. Samson Shillitoe, is (according to Shelly's definition) one of "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But poetry does not rule our world and his obsession with completing his epic poem leads to his violating most accepted standards of behavior and into conflicts, both comic and deadly, with adversaries intent on making him "normal." Since A FINE MADNESS was published in 1964 it has achieved the status of a modern comedy classic. This new edition contains a preface by the author which will add to the reader's enjoyment. "I cannot imagine anyone reading A FINE MADNESS without his vision being sharpened and dignified." New York Times Book Review
Download or read book THIS Is Africa 2 written by Mat Dry and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa captured Mat Dry's heart from his first day as a safari guide. Sharing the thrills and excitement of the continent's wildlife and landscape is Dry's driving passion, although some days it seems like his safari guests are doing their level best to win a Darwin Award. Join Dry as he shares stories of the Amakhala Game Reserve, the Okavango Delta, and the Serengeti. From the majesty of a bull elephant moving silently through a midnight campground to the world's most oblivious jazz pianist, Dry's stories range from wonder and awe to all-out hilarity. As a guide, Dry has faced down charges from full-grown lions…and delicately removed a hand-sized spider from his just-showered and vulnerable lower back. THIS is Africa 2: More True Tales of a Safari Guide offers up more of Dry's adventures and misadventures as he guides people with no bush skills through Africa's wild places. Just be warned—after you finish reading his eloquent plea on behalf of rhinos you may be tempted to go on a safari yourself. If you do, hope you get Dry as your guide. He knows what he's doing—and how to have fun.
Download or read book Travel Tales Collections African Safaris written by Michael Brein, Ph.D. and published by Michael Brein, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collections is a monthly bookazine release of three very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, scams, wildlife, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Collections are small groups of similar travel tales making their way into ebooks in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales eBook Series. Say, for example, you are interested in the subject of pickpockets. You'll read in the 'Collection' on pickpocketing several travel stories about how several people dealt with pickpockets in their travels. So, are you maybe Interested in specific travel stories about France, African safaris, safety and security overseas, mystical experiences, rogues and characters, ghosts and the paranormal, the Cold War Soviet Union, 'from hell' travel tales, or what have you? Eventually, there will be up to several hundred Collections on an extensive variety of very interesting travel subjects and themes to choose from. Simply select any Collections that suit your specific travel interests. You wouldn't believe the incredible stories people have told me about their travels. These are--simply stated--great stories! Travel Tales Collections No. 1 Aug 2014: African Safaris 1 Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, African Safaris 1, features several wildlife tales, including Cape buffaloes, errant hippos, and even a wayward hyena named “Spot.” These are—simply stated--great stories! Travel Tales Collections, African Safaris 1, is the very first of the Collections series and contains three among the best travel stories about African safaris from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. Of course, there are always the usual, typical, expected sorts of African Safari experiences. But there are also those incredible unexpected surprises that become all the more memorable just because they are so unique! Future Collections of African safari travel stories will include additional wildlife encounters as well as other interesting aspects of African safaris.
Download or read book Legendary Safari Guides written by Susie Cazenove and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four safari guides are profiled by experienced safari travel promoter, Susie Cazenove. She tells us their stories of adventure and dreams - of following their passion into the wild and of making their guests see Africa in a new light. Read of the antics of the guides in the early days of Londolozi, of guests having to cling to trees in the face of charging rhinos, of safaris with Mary Leaky and legends of the Masai warriors. The tales tell of a wilderness under increasing threat and these guides' determination to share the privilege of a truly wild experience with their guests. The stories take the reader from South Africa to Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Namibia in search of legendary safari guides.
Download or read book Don t Look Behind You written by Peter Allison and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top safari guide tells more hair-raising true stories about safari life in South Africa's famous Kruger National Park and in Botswana's Okavango Delta.
Download or read book DON T RUN Whatever You Do written by Peter Allison and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Okavango Delta, Botswana: a lush wetland in the middle of the Kalahari desert. Aged 19, Peter Allison thought he would visit for a short holiday before going home to get a 'proper job'. But Peter fell in love with southern Africa and its wildlife and before long had risen to become a top safari guide. In Don't Run, Whatever You Do, you'll hear outrageous-but-true tales from the most exciting safaris. You'll find out when an elephant is really going to charge, what different monkey calls mean and what do in a face off with lions. Sometimes the tourists are even wilder than the animals, from the half-naked missing member of the British royal family to the Japanese amateur photographer who ignores all the rules to get the perfect shot. Don't Run, Whatever You Do is a glimpse of what the life of an expert safari guide is really like.
