Predators I Have Known

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators.

Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks.

Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

©2011 Alan Dean Foster (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

My mother would have loved this book

She did a lot of the same trips to Africa and Australia. Heck, I had to check the dates just to make sure she and Foster weren't in the same place at the same time. The descriptions of the animals, what it was like to encounter them, and just what it was like to have them so close, would have thrilled her, and reminded her of her young days.
As for me, I not only greatly enjoyed this book, but I also learned a lot, including the #3 item to bring to any trip to Africa--for a number of reasons, bring at least 5 frisbees.

What a Wonderful Insight

Reflections of the real life animal journeys and interactions of the man who wrote Alien series Wonderful and enthralling.

it wasn't bad

i was hoping for more North Amarican stories and less shark and lion stories since African & ocean predator stories are most common

Over worked

Way too many drawn out similes and useless descriptions. Repeated a few facts and stories.