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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Whatever You Do Don't Run True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Author: Peter Allison
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 ter...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780762745654
ISBN-10: 0762745657
Publication Date: 10/1/2007
Pages: 264
Edition: First
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 21 ratings
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 4
I'm not really animal person, so it took me a few chapters to get into the book, but by the halfway point, I was hooked. Allison writes well, and the chapters (short essays really) are stand-alone, so that it made a great book to read during a few minutes of downtime here and there.
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Helpful Score: 2
This was a very fun book of essays written by an Australian man who has spent over a decade working as a safari guide in Africa. Many of the stories were quite funny - the mouse plague and the Japanese tourists being my favorites. It was a fun, fast read. While he wasn't that great of a writer, the raw material that he had to work with made up for that lack and I really did enjoy reading it.
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