Peter Allison

08/11/2023

New edition!

Today's second Lyons Press travel adventure book is a new and expanded edition of WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T RUN: TRUE TALES OF A BOTSWANA SAFARI GUIDE, Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”

With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide’s first-hand account of working in the African bush. Allison regales us with stories about confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals and most, terrifying of all, managing herds of gaping tourists run amok. His humor is exceeded only by his love and respect for the animals of the Kalahari. As a top safari guide, he knows he serves the whims of his wealthy clients, yet he often has to stop the impulse to run as far away from them as he can. When this isn’t possible, his goal is to limit any negative exposure to humans by planning trips that are minimally invasive—unfortunately it doesn’t always work out that way. With much good-natured scorn for himself, no one but Peter Allison could make up these outrageous-but-true tales!

22/12/2021

Just a reminder that I rarely check this page, but do post regularly, and usually while drunk, on Instagram.

01/09/2021

A wild cat kitten, something you don't see often. Even rarer to get a good photo of one, so I don't feel bad about this.

27/08/2021

Here it is, my gift for you
Here it is, a gift of poo
If you like it (I hope you do)
Remember just swallow, best not to chew

26/07/2021

I recently spoke with Dr Quinton Martins about his work researching leopards in the Cape, and mountain lions in Sonoma. Yes, his niche is big cats in wine growing regions. What a clever bu**er. His internet was rubbish so it took us two goes, if you'd like to watch they are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PabAZVXmYhA

And the second part here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhjjcVmtPk

Doc Martins got his internet up and (half) running, and we carry on speaking about mountain lions, leopards, and his studies of the two. Subscribe to our cha...

13/05/2021

Just had another fascinating Deep In The Bush experience, with Dr Steve Boyes of National Geographic fame. You can watch it here:

Steve Boyes, explorer, scientist, conservationist and owner of fine facial hair joins Deep In The Bush to discuss his missions into Angola, and the discoveri...

06/05/2021

Have you ever heard the saying 'treat the disease not the symptoms'?
Almost globally we are treating the symptoms. We are saying to people, don't travel. Don't see your friends. Avoid your loved ones.

How about treating the disease? Don't eat bats. Keep your hands off pangolins. Its not just those species, but all animals in the wild. Enjoy wildlife, but from a distance that respects it.

Millions of human lives would not have been lost, trillions of dollars, all those jobs, all those moments we wont get back and immeasurable heartache avoided if we just heeded that.

23/04/2021

If you'd like to watch two ancient guides chat all things elephants for an hour or so then here is Mr Alan McSmith on Deep In The Bush : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFxnc7dXJ2M

But first watch this brief clip of how to coolly handle an elephant that might or might not want to flatten you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WW3QbOgQA

Just as elephant are ecological keystones, they are keystone to a greater awareness. They are ambassadors in a sense. Ambassadors of an ancient order of empa...

20/12/2020

BREAKING (AGAIN) - STEVE HAS HAD TO POSTPONE DUE TO DODGY WIFI IN HIS LOCALE, SO THIS WILL NOW BE IN TEH NEW YEAR. APOLOGIES FROM ALL OF US. A reminder that tomorrow at midday GMT I'll be speaking with National Geographic Explorer (yes, in capitals!) Steve Boyes about the madness and despair of exploration, what fears and hopes he holds for the Okavango, and after so many discoveries does he think there is still anything large to uncover. Find us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zBFpuccsrc

BREAKING! POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY THE 21ST. Steve Boyes is an adventurer, National Geographic explorer, dedicated conservationist but most dangerous of all, a...

29/11/2020

On the next episode of Deep In The Bush I will be chatting with Forrest Shaw, a marine biologist and conservation ecologist turned stand up comedian and writer about fat fish, the nature of gambling, and what hotels should do instead of guilting you into not washing a towel.
It will be live here on Tuesday at 18.30 GMT, or living forever on youtube once recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lnTBBCacM

Peter Allison will chat with Forrest Shaw, marine and conservation biologist turned stand up comedian and writer. They'll discuss whether fish are funny, fat...

16/11/2020

Hi all, tomorrow (the 17th of November) I will be interviewing Damien Mander live on youtube (search Be The Uproar and you will find it on their channel). He is a former special forces soldier turned conservationist with more than one or two amazing stories to tell.
1pm GMT, you can ask questions live if you'd like or watch the replay later.

29/10/2020

Hello all, a short while ago in collaboration with a fine group of people that go by Uproar we launched a podcast called Deep In The Bush. There's a few banked already, but tonight we go live with a double experiment - inviting people to ask questions live; but far more dangerously doing the interview drunk. This is a subset of Deep In The Bush called Bottoms Up. You can join us here: https://streamyard.com/vf4tjez9pz
I'll be speaking with my old friend Craig Glatthaar all things canine - wild species, their relationship with man, and the subject of his Master's degree - the use of dogs in conservation.
Kick off is 7pm GMT, which is some other time in the US and something else if you are in North Korea.

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29/09/2020

A cute photo of a mother and child brown hyena.
Except it isn't. These are siblings, from the same litter. The sister is the big one.
To explain how much we get wrong about hyenas (looking at you Disney) I'll be joining Lloyd Camp at 7pm UK time on Thursday. Zoom meeting code 7809320496, password campfire.
If you'd like to hack it and flood the whole thing with p**n that's okay.

23/09/2020

Hi all, here is a link to the interview yesterday with the warm, wonderful, and heavily pregnant Lee-Anne Yammin of Our Horn Is Not Medicine. https://www.ourhornisnotmedicine.com/

Please visit this site too!: https://www.ourhornisnotmedicine.com/

"South Africa's world renowned Kruger National Park is home to the majority of the planet's rhino population. Our Horn is not Medicine (OHNM) is a project of the Southern African Wildlife College, located within the Greater Kruger area. OHNM's main aim is the create awareness about the rhino poachin...

22/09/2020

Heres a thing I'll be doing later today UK time: https://instagram.com/stories/peterallisonsafari/2403620836328987806?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=j2fvce9qfgvq

16/09/2020

Hi all, for those that missed the online chat I had with fellow guide, fellow author, and fellow mammal Lloyd Camp recently it is all up n youtube: https://youtu.be/3P4Nb5EekGo