WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE.(THE COMPACT TRAVELLER)

From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: July 30, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Jeremy Hart

For most people, the end of August spells the end of summer. For me it will spend the end of the waiting. Waiting to see if, from somewhere on my epidermis, an inch-long barbed larva belonging to the jungle-dwelling botfly will erupt.

Given that just a few weeks ago I was wandering about the Belizean jungle and, despite being lathered up in tube after tube of Her Majesty's military insect repellent, got bitten to hell, the odds are good that I could be about to give birth.

I'm prepared. The day before following a jungle survival expert, Nick ...

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