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101 Kruger tales, extraordinary stories from ordinary visitors to the Kruger National Park, compiled & edited by Jeff Gordon

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101 Kruger tales

compiled & edited by Jeff Gordon

extraordinary stories from ordinary visitors to the Kruger National Park

An enraged elephant flips a car onto its roof. A lioness prises open the door of a terrified couple. A leopard helps itself to a family's picnic breakfast. A fleeing impala leaps through an open car window. A lion charges around inside a busy rest camp. A hyaena snatches a baby from a tent. A tourist takes a bath in a croc-infested dam...These are just a few of the 101 jaw-dropping sightings, scrapes and encounters in this collection of extraordinary true stories from the roads, camps, picnic sites and walking trails of South Africa's Kruger National Park, as told by the very people who experienced them. There are no game ranger tales here - each and every story happened to an ordinary Kruger visitor doing what over a million tourists do in this spectacular reserve each year

1.The Leopard that Killed the Cheetah that Killed the Impala / Mark Boucher -- 2.The Other Kruger Millions / Mark Boucher -- 3.Angry Elephant's Road Rage Rampage / Mark Boucher -- 4.A Small Knife and a Big Dilemma / Mark Boucher -- 5.Leopard Raids the Braai / Mark Boucher -- 6.The Hippo, the Impala and the Natural Order of Things / Mark Boucher -- 7.A Short Stroll Through Lion Country / Mark Boucher -- 8.'Local Butcher Gored By Elephant' / Mark Boucher -- 9.One Wild Morning in Lower Sabie / Mark Boucher -- 10.Blessed Impala's Flying Leap of Faith / Mark Boucher -- 11.An Astonishing Confluence of Killers / Mark Boucher -- 12.The Biyamiti Stowaway / Mark Boucher -- 13.Hijack on the Bridge / Mark Boucher -- 14.How the Elephant got its Trunk / Mark Boucher -- 15.The Newly Deputised Officials / Mark Boucher -- 16.Battle at Kruger / Mark Boucher -- 17.Granny and the White Lions / Mark Boucher -- 18.Pulling a Baboon's Tail 6o / Mark Boucher -- 19.Spat on from Above / Mark Boucher -- 20.Leopard in the Torchlight / Mark Boucher -- 21.An Accidental Translocation / Mark Boucher -- 22.Lion Roar Uproar / Mark Boucher -- 23.A Close Scrape with Poachers / Mark Boucher -- 24.Good Turn Turns Bad / Mark Boucher -- 25.A Bite at Berg-en-Dal / Mark Boucher -- 26.Bull Elephant and the Mini / Mark Boucher -- 27.Dog Day Morning / Mark Boucher -- 28.Slapping a Hyaena in the Face / Mark Boucher -- 29.Leopard Versus Crocodile / Mark Boucher -- 30.Rocking the Car to Escape the Rhino / Mark Boucher -- 31.Too Busy Fiddling to Notice / Mark Boucher -- 32.Bumbling Lions in the Jackalberry Tree / Mark Boucher -- 33.Reversing a Caravan / Mark Boucher -- 34.Bouncing Off the Fence / Mark Boucher -- 35.The Shocking Death of a Leopard / Mark Boucher -- 36.Dragging a Carcass / Mark Boucher -- 37.Tidal Wave of Elephants / Mark Boucher -- 38.Wrong Place, Wrong Time, on a Rhino's Turf / Mark Boucher -- 39.A Cry in the Night / Mark Boucher -- 40.Good Morning, Groot Krokodil / Mark Boucher -- 41.Impala in the Mud / Mark Boucher -- 42.Monkey Man and the Skukuza Offensive / Mark Boucher -- 43.Lion Charge Miracle / Mark Boucher -- 44.Not an Eagle or a Birdie - But a Wild Dog / Mark Boucher -- 45.Safari Tent Spitting Games / Mark Boucher -- 46.Crouching Leopard, Silly Fool / Mark Boucher -- 47.An Unusual Sighting Downstream / Mark Boucher -- 48.Barely in the Park / Mark Boucher -- 49.A Hissing in the Engine / Mark Boucher -- 50.An Extra Night in the Park / Mark Boucher -- 51.Don't Panic, I'm a Kingfisher / Mark Boucher -- 52.Paddling Cubs and the Croc / Mark Boucher -- 53.The Great Ones Do Have Feelings / Mark Boucher -- 54.There's a Lion Outside our Tent / Mark Boucher -- 55.A Matter of Knife and Death / Mark Boucher -- 56.Lions are Faster than Lawn Mowers / Mark Boucher -- 57.Battle Before the Gates of Skukuza / Mark Boucher -- 58.Skukuza Leopard Kills / Mark Boucher -- 59.Mauling on the Hillside / Mark Boucher -- 60.A Fine Place to Bath / Mark Boucher -- 61.At the Mercy of the Rising Timbavati / Mark Boucher -- 62.Herding Warthogs / Mark Boucher -- 63.A Kill From Our Veranda / Mark Boucher -- 64.And the Leopard Will Lie Down With the Kid / Mark Boucher -- 65.The Lioness that Opened the Door / Mark Boucher -- 66.New Year's Eve Birthday Suit / Mark Boucher -- 67.Perils of the Call of Nature / Mark Boucher -- 68.Lioness Joins the Picnic / Mark Boucher -- 69.The Elephant and the Drowning Calf / Mark Boucher -- 70.Leaving my Child to the Lions / Mark Boucher -- 71.Almost Leopard Breakfast / Mark Boucher -- 72.Walking Towards the Lions / Mark Boucher -- 73.The Crocodile that Stood Up / Mark Boucher -- 74.A Kill Under Spotlights / Mark Boucher -- 75.Breaking Down the Door / Mark Boucher -- 76.The Hyaena, the Fence and my Little Boy's Hand / Mark Boucher -- 77.Hiding Under the Hide / Mark Boucher -- 78.Water! / Mark Boucher -- 79.Between a Lioness and her Cubs / Mark Boucher -- 80.Yes, All Cars Have Coils / Mark Boucher -- 81.The Calculating Leopard / Mark Boucher -- 82.The Giraffe that Committed Suicide / Mark Boucher -- 83.Empty Spool Heartbreak / Mark Boucher -- 84.Spotting a Different Kind of Mammal / Mark Boucher -- 85.The Strange Tale of the Dog in the Night / Mark Boucher -- 86.Baboon Bullies and the Leopard Cub / Mark Boucher -- 87.The King Cheetah / Mark Boucher -- 88.Boomslang Bite and a Long Drive Home / Mark Boucher -- 89.How My Sports Car Got Its Scars / Mark Boucher -- 90.The Nhlanganini Baby Snatcher / Mark Boucher -- 91.The Waterbuck and the Laager / Mark Boucher -- 92.Black Mamba Hitches a Ride / Mark Boucher -- 93.Reversing into Camp / Mark Boucher -- 94.Not Our Morning to be Eaten / Mark Boucher -- 95.Scars of a Charge Run Deep / Mark Boucher -- 96.Zebra Crossing / Mark Boucher -- 97.A Record Case of Foolishness for a Record Pair of Horns / Mark Boucher -- 98.Beetle Express / Mark Boucher -- 99.Black Mamba and the Crocodiles / Mark Boucher -- 100.Teenage Runaways Trek Through the Park / Mark Boucher -- 101.The Rarest Kruger Predator / Mark Boucher

One hundred and one Kruger tales