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Whatever you do, don't run: my adventures as a Botswana safari guide
By Peter Allison. 2007
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Biography, Humour, Travel and geography, Adventure and exploration
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Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit…
of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet. Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Like the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more 'fashionable' hot pink ensemble, or the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it, there's not much in the African bush that Peter hasn't seen, photographed or been chased by.Niagara's gold
By Jeff Maynard. 1996
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History, General non-fiction, Adventure and exploration
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In June 1940, the Bank of England attempted to ship eight tons of gold to America. On June 19th the…
ship, the RMS Niagara, hit a German mine and sank off the coast of New Zealand. In the months that followed one man would search for the ship and its gold.Rose: the extraordinary voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who sailed around the world for love
By Suzanne Falkiner. 2022
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History, General non-fiction, Adventure and exploration
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In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen…
years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men's clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage of scientific discovery to the South Seas. Living for three years as the sole female among 120 men, Rose de Freycinet defied not only bourgeois society's expectations of a woman in 1817, but also a strict prohibition against women sailing on French naval ships. From dancing at Governors' balls in distant colonies, to evading pirates and meeting armed Indigenous warriors on remote Australian shores, to surviving shipwreck in the wintry Falkland Islands, Rose used her quick pen to record her daily experiences, becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the world and leave a record of her journey. Suzanne Falkiner tells this story of courage, enduring love, curiosity and spirit of adventure, using contemporaneous accounts as well Rose's own journal and letters.