Award-winning journalist and photographer Justin Fox shares an entertaining and illuminating account of tracking Africa's most elusive, instead of her most famous, animals: the Cape Mountain Leopard, the Aardvark, the Pangolin, the Riverine Rabbit, and the naturally-occurring White Lion. Visiting Africa's game reserves is often all about spotting 'The Big Five' -- the five most dangerous animals on the continent -- the Lion, the Leopard, the Elephant, the Rhino and the Buffalo. But what about those animals you have almost zero chance of seeing? Justin Fox drew up a list of the most elusive animals and set off to find 'The Impossible Five' -- the Cape Mountain Leopard, the Aardvark, the Pangolin, the Riverine Rabbit, and the Naturally Occurring White Lion. In a humorous, original, off-beat adventure story, Fox travels around Africa in search of these forgotten animals, meeting some very weird characters and other absurd mammals along the way.
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