Don't Look Behind You! True Tales of a Safari Guide

(London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2010) 9781857885330. 214 x 134 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xii + 241 + (ii); colour plates. Crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover. Very good condition. "Join Peter Allison for hair-raising and hilarious tales of Africa, animals and close escapes, and come through amazed - but without a scratch. It shouldn't be fun to be chased by an animal that outweighs you by a factor of seventy, but Peter gets an odd thrill every time an elephant charges his beaten-up jeep or a peckish crocodile looks at him sideways. By now you'd think the bestselling author of Don't Run, Whatever You Do would know his way around. You'd be wrong. From avoiding territorial hippos and half-starved lions, to dodging landmines and getting lost on the unforgiving savannah, Peter has had his fair share of close calls: like the afternoon he heard monkeys telling him that a leopard was walking around the camp, and them realized the leopard was in his tent, with him in it. Drawing on his experiences in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia, Don't Look Behind You! is another brilliant book of crazy and charming, endearing and laugh-out-loud funny safari stories." .