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What's your cat up to when you're not around? Do dragons exist? Are clouds alive? Why did three men risk their lives for a single penguin egg?
These are just a few of the questions and stories puzzled over by award-winning travel writer and naturalist Don Pinnock. Assembled from years of wandering around Africa, this is a funny, entertaining and thought-provoking book.
Don Pinnock, former editor of Getaway magazine, is also a criminologist who co-drafted the Youth Justice White Paper for the ANC government. He is among South Africa’s top experts on gangsterism and wrote the seminal book on the topic called Gangs, Rituals and Rites of Passage, which caused quite a stir when it was published in 1984. Pinnock is a specialist in adolescent deviance and founder of Usiko, a rehabilitation organisation for high-risk youths.
"This book will convince you that if we remove the wild places from our hearts, we will wilt and die"
– Kingsley Holgate
"makes science read like a thriller"
– Justin Fox
"instantly engrossing"
– Mike Nicol
