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03460aam a2200421 i 4500 001 4CE9CE78042511E988F8962C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181220010036 008 170313t20142014ctuabf 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2017288189 020 $a 0762796472 (pbk.) : 020 $a 9780762796472 (pbk.) : 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $e rda $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ORX $d HCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d T3B $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a f-bs--- 050 00 $a G156 $b .A45 2014 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Allison, Peter, $e author. 245 10 $a Whatever you do, don't run : $b true tales of a Botswana safari guide / $c Peter Allison. 250 $a New and expanded edition. 264 1 $a Guilford, Connecticut : $b Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2014] 300 $a xiii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : $b color illustrations, 1 map ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Previous edition: 2008. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Allison, Peter. 650 0 $a Safari guides $z Botswana $v Biography. 650 0 $a Safaris $z Botswana $v Anecdotes. 650 4 $a Safaris $z Botswana. 600 17 $a Allison, Peter. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01555299 650 7 $a Safari guides. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01103320 650 7 $a Safaris. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01103324 651 7 $a Botswana. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205793 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423876 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 1 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310012635.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4CE9CE78042511E988F8962C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search