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Last Days on the Zambezi

其他書名	A Remarkable Journey Down Africa's Wildest River
出版	Berkeley / Hot Globe, 2023-10-03
主題	Nature / GeneralTravel / General
ISBN	9798989070008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7iEl0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A journey down the Zambezi River in Africa. Adventurer and author Steve Chapple takes readers on a wild and wet ride from the Zambezi's source through Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique where the river meets the Indian Ocean. The people, the culture, the dangers and triumphs of the journey are explored with an environmentalist's eye to the spectacular wildlife Chapple--a writer for National Geographic and the New York Times--encounters.Hold on to ride the biggest whitewater on the planet, rapids and drops with names like "The Carnage Maker," "The Overland Truck Eater," and the crazy-glorious "Stairway-to-Heaven." Learn why hippos are the most dangerous animals in Africa, not crocodiles, and how to warn them with the slap of a paddle. Glide by the camps of elephant poachers in silent mode. Find out up close what real lions sound like when they gather the pride at night (not like the MGM lion.) Make it to the headwaters of the Zambezi along the horrendous Old Slave Trail, and back down-river through war-torn Mozambique where the cocaine-fueled proxy-armies of Russia and America not so long ago fought pitiless battles in the savannah, butchering what were once endless herds of elephant, buffalo, zebra, and wildebeest for meat. LAST DAYS is a survivor's adventure of the highest order, and at bottom it makes a compelling plea for saving one of the last watery treasures on earth. A page-turner