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"""Plans are usually only good for one thing - laughing at in hindsight. So, armed with rudimentary Spanish, dangerous levels of curiosity and a record of poor judgement, I set off to tackle whatever South America could throw at me."" On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Don't Run, Whatever You do and Don't Look Behind You. Sixteen years later he makes his way to Chile, ready to seek out the continent's best, weirdest and wildest adventures - and to chase the elusive jaguar. From learning to walk a puma (or rather be bitten and dragged along by it) in Bolivia, to finding love in Patagonia and hunting naked with the remote Huaorani people in Ecuador, How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of misadventures in South America. Ever the gifted storyteller and cultural observer, Allison makes many observations about life in humid climes, the nature of nomadism, and exactly what it is like to be nearly blasted off a mountain by the famous Patagonia wind. His self-deprecating humour is as delightful as his crazy stunts, and his love for animals - even when they bite - is infectious."

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Praise for Whatever You Do, Don't Run Allison's infectious enthusiasm for both the African bush and his job showing its wonders to tourists is readily apparent. -- Booklist His misadventures make Whatever You Do, Don't Run an absorbing read. . . . The material is rich, and Allison is a gifted storyteller. And the only thing stranger than African fiction is African truth. -- National Geographic Adventure After reading this entrancing memoir, an African safari may move to No. 1 on your travel wish list. The only catch is you'll want the author as your guide. -- Chicago Sun-Times Praise for Don't Look Behind You: The best compliment you can pay a travel writer is to read his work and feel like you're right there with him. For more than two hundred pages, I felt like I was in Africa, up to my neck in danger. I don't even know this guy, but more than once I lay awake at night, worrying for his safety. Enough adventure, action, life lessons, and laughs to fill a movie and four sequels. The fact that Allison survived to write any of this down is a miracle in itself. --Cash Peters, author of Naked in Dangerous Places and Gullible's Travels

Praise for Peter Allison: Allison's writing is high on colour and is packed with engaging accounts of the sort of things that are just another day at the office for the average safari guide...full of hair-raising stories of escape and adventure. Sunday Telegraph Peter is the perfect storyteller with the ability to poke fun at himself. Witty, exciting, and ultimately unmissable. Real Travel He writes beautifully and viscerally about the rhythm of bush life. TNT Magazine

He writes beautifully and viscerally about the rhythm of bush life. * TNT Magazine * Peter is the perfect storyteller with the ability to poke fun at himself. Witty, exciting, and ultimately unmissable. * Real Travel * Praise for Peter Allison: Allison's writing is high on colour and is packed with engaging accounts of the sort of things that are just another day at the office for the average safari guide...full of hair-raising stories of escape and adventure. * Sunday Telegraph *

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Peter Allison has been a safari guide in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique for nearly 20 years. His safaris have featured in National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, and on television programs such as 'Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures.' He is author of the bestselling Don't Run, Whatever You Do (978 1 85788 501 9) and Don't Look Behind You (978 1 85788 533 0), both published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

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