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Article: Sleeping with the Lions; Anyone can do it - the clever bit is in learning how NOT to get eaten.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2002
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Byline: MARK CARWARDINE
WITH about 20 years' experience as a game ranger in the African bush, Les Brett is South Africa's answer to Crocodile Dundee.
He is about as qualified as they come. He has passed all the exams (such as the one where they stick trainees in front of a charging buffalo to see how they react) and curls up in front of the campfire with a good book to read about the stools of African mammals.
For me, being a game ranger was always something of a childhood dream.
But to do it for real would take at least five years of lectures and training, tough days and nights sleeping rough in the bush and endless exams.
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