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  • Boathouse to Botswana: Life in the catering underworld; Lifting the lid on the luxury safari, and restaurant industries. (Memoirs Book 1)
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Boathouse to Botswana: Life in the catering underworld; Lifting the lid on the luxury safari, and restaurant industries. (Memoirs Book 1) Kindle Edition

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A chance conversation at a friend's wedding takes a very English restaurant manager from Oxford to the remotest deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast and the tropical swamplands of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Learning to cope with the heat and the tribal customs of the Himba and the San (Bushmen), adapting to work in an environment where confrontations with lions, elephants and leopards are the norm, often pale in comparison when considering the complexities of tackling the most curious beast of all - the safari super-rich. Boathouse to Botswana takes us on a fascinating and funny journey, informative and insightful about both Namibia and Botswana it is also a captivating history of the author's professional experiences over eighteen years in the hospitality industry. Nick Green has written a travel book that enables us to share in the passion, the power, the excitement and the optimism that is Africa.

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Modern English narrative and crime fiction

Nick Green has travelled the world and now shares his vision via contemporary fiction and non-fiction narrative.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0767LXYQ2
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Oct. 5 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 745 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 190 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 1 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Memoirs
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Nick Green was born in Oxford, England in 1972. He is a writer, poet, musician, and restaurant manager. Having traveled the world, living and working in Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Namibia, and Botswana, he came home to Oxfordshire in 2016 where he lives happily with his Zambian wife and their two children.

Nick has written nine books, the latest of which - Murder in the Italian Garden (2023) - is number two in the DCI Amanda Godspeed series.

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  • Ms P
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hair raising and humorous
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2017
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    As a Zambian born in Botswana I really loved reading about life in the camps, I think you strike the right balance between hair raising and humorous. I imagine it must be pretty scary at times surrounded by so many wild animals.

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