AFOOT IN THE WILD KINGDOM WALKING SAFARIS PUT TOURISTS IN STEP WITH ZAMBIA'S BIG GAME.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: February 2, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: Jill Schensul Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.

ZAMBIA -- Vultures are gathering in the white-blue sky.

Ten a.m. and the earth is baking in Zambia's Luangwa Valley. Heat waves cause the tall kasensi grass to shudder as Maxon squints through battered binoculars and whispers: ``Lion.''

John, the scout, nods for us to move downwind, and we move quickly, high reeds rasping as we mow through them.

Last in line, I glance nervous...

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