How to Walk a Puma: & Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America

Peter Allison

ISBN 10: 185788566X / ISBN 13: 9781857885668

Published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2012

About this Item

2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. Peter Allison brought you Don't Run, Whatever You Do & Don't Look Behind You. How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; WNC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288. And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America. 264 pages, Illustrationsstrations, map. Peter Allison brought you Don't Run, Whatever You Do & Don't Look Behind You. How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLS; WNC; WTL. Dimension: 136 x 216 x 18. Weight: 292. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Walk a Puma: & Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185788566X
• ISBN 13: 9781857885668
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"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.

About the Author

Only 19 when he left Australia, Peter Allison arrived in Africa thinking he'd have a short holiday before going home to a 'proper job'. But Peter ended up falling in love with the continent and its wildlife, and after a few years was hired by Southern Africa's largest safari operator to train all their experts; over a decade later, his short holiday in Africa still isn't over.