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What would you do if elephants tore breakfast branches from above your swinging hammock? If a pride of lions invaded your camp? Or you were knocked into the water by a charging hippo? Jamie, a colourfully blended character and possibly a careless adventurer, intertwines the tale of his 2009 Zambezi River descent with often hilarious and sometimes scary bush tales from all over Africa.

The River drifts the three boys down towards Mozambique in sea kayaks that they have yet to master, through rapids they may not survive and through communities that tell of the disappearance of a way of life.

Distance bears no relation to the time they take and mid trip, the back weary paddlers take a fortuitous river break, in which they deal with a ruptured appendix, the ear notching and chip tagging of a wild population of rhino, and the escape of two of these prehistoric beasts.

The chase is epic and the boys cannot afford to fail.

The rhino must come home.

About the Author Hollie M'gog (Manuel), was born in Nakuru, Kenya in 1984 and although Kenyan, has lost her heart to Uganda.

Lucky enough to have been schooled on three continents (Africa, Australia and Europe) she has led a wanderlust life and has had many an exciting adventure herself, including being pushed sideways by a mountain gorilla in Uganda, being flattened by a swift moving orangutan in Sumatra, having her hat lifted off her head by a charging wild elephant in Botswana and slipping into a crocodile feeding pond in Australia when the embankment collapsed! Africa runs in her blood stream and although she enjoys to travel, by way of kayaking, hiking and hitch-hiking, through Central and South East Asia, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, she will never leave Africa, it's colourful people, it's aggravating bureaucracy, it's intense wilderness and it's freedom from the 'general rules of society'.

'Black Mamba for Breakfast' is her first non-fiction book but she hope there will be many more as she lends herself out as a g.