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Shambolic: A Safari Life

Shambolic~ A Safari Life, is a collection of tales spanning the mid to late 1990s. A golden decade for those of us guiding at and managing the small safari camps dotted around Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Minimum managerial oversight and maximum improvisation in an analogue world. We were mostly out of sight, sometimes out of our minds and always unwilling to read the instruction manual. A confederacy of campfire raconteurs, championing the wilderness that inspired us. It was frequently shambolic, occasionally glorious and almost no one diedBen Forbeshas spent twenty five years working in wildlife travel, mostly in Africa. He has enjoyed near misses with almost everything in the animal kingdom that walks, crawls or slithers.Read more

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