Where Crocodiles Roam: A Zambezi paddling tale and other wilderness stories Audiobook (Free)

My goodness! How are you young boys still alive?Because survival is by co-ordination, good luck, respect and karma and ‘sometimes good fortune has been you, and sometimes not, but the important things is to consider the dare.’ David BrowerWhere Kingsley Holgate explores Africa beneath an outrageous beard having a keg of rum by his part – 40 years his junior I made a decision to explore my Africa with naiveté, invincibility as well as the testosterone fueled charisma of boyhood.Unprepared, untested, unperturbed – who said an about Where Crocodiles Roam: A Zambezi paddling tale and various other wilderness tales explorer needs to be proven?Taking half a year from our boyhood lives to discover adventure? That’s easy. Undertaking a Zambezi source-to-sea paddling expedition with no previous kayaking encounter? That’s harder. And ridiculous.Staying alive amongst crocodiles and hippos, rapids and whirlpools, sunstroke and dysentery – now that’s extremely difficult … or commendable when you can live through to the finish of your story.Today throw in two marauding rhino and appendicitis and see if you would still predict survival and start packing for your own adventure. Do I worry that every day may be my last? Of course I did however in the end ‘the primary difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the higher the experience), a margin whose width and length may be dependant on unknown elements but whose successful navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurers nerve and wits. It will always be exhilarating to live by one’s nerves and toward the summit of your respective wits.’ Tom Robbins. Another Roadside Attraction