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What would you do if elephants tore breakfast branches from above your swinging hammock? If a pride of lions invaded your camp? Or you were knocked into the water by a charging hippo? Zimbabwe is crumbling economically. Poaching is on the increase. As farms are being taken over wildlife is fast disappearing. Only one game ranch is hanging in strongly - Imire Safari Ranch. In 2007 Imire hit international headlines when three of its five strong black rhino breeding herd were slaughtered, along with an unborn calf. Armed poachers took the half inch of horn the rhinos still carried, after being de-horned only a few months earlier. One calf survived and was catapulted to stardom in the documentary 'There's a rhino in my house' Tatenda. This story is for Tatenda and his brethren. 'Where Crocodiles Roam, ' an action packed adventure travelogue, tells the story of a trio of twenty-three year old boys who have grown up in Africa and who are searching for adventure in their own backyard. The plan: To kayak the Zambezi river from source to sea. The problems: None of them has ever kayaked before. The adventure is the journey inbetween, not the completion of a goal. The boys encounter crocodiles and hippos, rapids and whirlpools, malaria and snakebites, sunstroke and dysentery. Distance bears no relation to the time they take and mid trip the back weary paddlers take a fortuitous river break, in which they deal with a ruptured appendix, the ear notching and chip tagging of a wild population of rhino and the escape of two of these prehistoric beasts. The chase is epic and the boys cannot afford to fail. The rhino must come home.

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"""What's not to love... It's a real life epic adventure fabulously told in page turning humour all set in a truly wondrous place that still exists today. A book for anyone who loves thrills, laughs and to be transported to out of their armchair (or commuter seat on a bus/train) and into a land of excitement, danger and awe. Top read, highly recommended for those hunting for a book that should be but isn't on the best sellers list."" Amazon Reader Review ""A must-read for all wanderlust adventurers! A truly special collaboration of an extraordinary adventure told by an incredibly talented writer who possesses a real gift of storytelling. The journeys of these young men will have you laughing and crying and ultimately wishing for your own crazy quest, leaving you wanting to hear more tales of their explorations."" Tara Bennet ""This book brings hope and despair, laughs and tears as well as some glimpses into the conundrums that make up Africa today. A brilliant debut book - a must read for those who have the Spirit of Africa and Adventure in their bones - and a definite for anyone who secretly habours a yen to abandon the safe, humdrum existence of everyday life and do something daring and foolhardy but also inspirational and courageous."" Cheryle Robinson ""A fantastic read, a real page turner - makes Africa come alive. Alongside the story of an incredible journey, it raises serious issues about conservation."" Amazon Reader Review"

What's not to love... It's a real life epic adventure fabulously told in page turning humour all set in a truly wondrous place that still exists today. A book for anyone who loves thrills, laughs and to be transported to out of their armchair (or commuter seat on a bus/train) and into a land of excitement, danger and awe. Top read, highly recommended for those hunting for a book that should be but isn't on the best sellers list. Amazon Reader Review A must-read for all wanderlust adventurers! A truly special collaboration of an extraordinary adventure told by an incredibly talented writer who possesses a real gift of storytelling. The journeys of these young men will have you laughing and crying and ultimately wishing for your own crazy quest, leaving you wanting to hear more tales of their explorations. Tara Bennet This book brings hope and despair, laughs and tears as well as some glimpses into the conundrums that make up Africa today. A brilliant debut book - a must read for those who have the Spirit of Africa and Adventure in their bones - and a definite for anyone who secretly habours a yen to abandon the safe, humdrum existence of everyday life and do something daring and foolhardy but also inspirational and courageous. Cheryle Robinson A fantastic read, a real page turner - makes Africa come alive. Alongside the story of an incredible journey, it raises serious issues about conservation. Amazon Reader Review

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Hollie M'gog (Manuel), was born in Nakuru, Kenya in 1984 and although Kenyan, has lost her heart to Uganda. Lucky enough to have been schooled on three continents (Africa, Australia and Europe) she has led a wanderlust life and has had many an exciting adventure herself, including being pushed sideways by a mountain gorilla in Uganda, having her hat lifted off her head by a charging wild elephant in Botswana, bitten and scarred by a wild orang-utan in the forests in Sumatra and slipping into a crocodile feeding pond in Australia when the embankment collapsed! Africa runs in her blood stream and although she enjoys to travel, by way of kayaking, hiking and hitch-hiking, through Central and South East Asia, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, she will never leave Africa, it's colourful people, it's aggravating bureaucracy, it's intense wilderness and it's freedom from the 'general rules of society'. 'Black Mamba for Breakfast' is her first non-fiction book but she hopes there will be many more as she lends herself out as a ghost writer in order to vicariously live the wild adventures of others. She is currently working on a fiction Trilogy (Boda Boda Tales from Uganda: 'Long Rains', 'Short Rains' and 'A Long Dry Season.' Jamie Manuel lives for the wilds of Africa, for Mt. Kenya and The Aberdare Mountains. Inspired by the tales of George Adamson, Samuel Baker and Livingstone himself, he is determined to see as many of the remaining places of really wild Africa that he can. Armed with fearlessness and what can only be described as more than nine lives, he continues to get himself into sticky adventures from which he returns home with more unbelievable tales, photos, video footage and wounds.

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