Excerpt from "Savannas"
"I had never really believed in being able to 'feel' somebody’s stare on my back until I found myself standing in the middle of a southern African savanna, surrounded by a sea of grass that stretched up to the horizon in all directions. I have no problem with being alone at night in the rainforest, but African savannas, be it day or night, make me feel really vulnerable and exposed. It is not just the lions and hyenas that my imagination puts behind every bush and termite mound. It is also the inability to see what lies near my feet, potentially a thick, muscular coil of a puff adder or a spitting cobra. I had been put in a hospital by a viper in the past, and knew that a snakebite in the middle of Botswana could be the last thing that ever happened to me."
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