The title of the post comes from an amusing blog I ran across while over at Science Blogs
Congo Memoirs
Here's a bit from the first chapter, which finds our hero in knee deep water.
On dry land, an angry hippo runs quite a bit faster than a frightened human, but the hippos can't climb trees like a human being chased by a hippo can. In knee deep water, the hippo runs as fast as it does on land while the human slogs along in a dream-run. Like in one of those nightmares, no matter how hard you try you just don't get anywhere, while the monster bears down on you. And there are no trees in the lake.
The rest of the chapters:
The Zodiac
The Big Park
Pirate Island
The Crater and the Crocodile
The Story of Wally the Waterbuck
Zorba and The Crew
How to make an elephant turn invisible
It Had to Be Snakes
The Lion That Ate The Earthwatcher
Peter and Greg Piss Everybody Off
Biker and Greg get Eaten by Lions
Fire On the Mountain
The Greg Layer
Kenyatsi. Place of evil.
A Hippo Runs Over Rudy
A Day In the Life (Bathing with the Hippos)
Out of the Flying Plain and Into the Fire (Congo Memoir)
The Mountain Giveth, The Mountain Taketh Away
If You Build It, They Will Fly Away
On Edge
Gunfire at Night
The Lion, The Tent, and the Anthropologist
Return Of The Green Pickup
Ready ... Aim ... Fire
The Crossing
The Empty Truck
Holy Moly. I randomly read "A Hippo Runs Over Rudy", now I am hooked. This person is a great story teller. I have to read the entire thing. You are evil...you knew this would happen :)
ReplyDeleteI randomly read the first one and had the same experience. It helps that I am particularly interested in Africa.
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