Travels with Gannon and Wyatt – Botswana, by Patti Wheeler
and Keith Hemstreet, Claim Stake Publishing, 2009, about 19.95$, 144 pp (with
DVD)
Twins Gannon and Wyatt from Colorado are
home-schooled – or, rather, world-schooled.!
They actually travel the world with
their parents to learn geography and natural history firsthand - then write up
their adventures for credit in English.
And adventures they are!
Meet the Big Five of Africa – the Lion, the Leopard, the
Cape Buffalo, the Elephant, and the Rhinoceros: the twins manage to see them
all while on safari – some of them too much up front and close. Like the time
their jeep is charged by a mother rhino or they see a dust cloud in the
distance that soon surrounds them only to discover that the dust is kicked up
by 500 Cape Buffalo!
Wyatt and Gannon’s photographs are interspersed throughout
the book and their very professional videotaping is included in a DVD that
features a narrated interview with the twins as well as a videotour of the boys
visiting Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 years) and
Capetown, South Africa (and additional photos).
It is hard to believe that such wild and exciting adventures
are still possible in today’s world (picture two young Indiana Jones types).
Wyatt and Gannon experience what most boys only dream about – but now you, too,
can join YES, the Youth Exploration Society. (www.travelswithgannonandwyatt.com)
Toss in some hippos, a small tribe of Bushmen, a black mamba
snake, Wyatt’s mysterious malady, a wounded lion with four lion cubs and an
eye-patched poacher, armed and dangerous!
Botswana is the first in a series that will take the twins
to the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada, Egypt, China, the South Pacific,
Antarctica, the Australian Outback, Machu Picchu – just for starters. I can’t
wait!
(Also see www.gannonandwyatt.com
for lots of action and an interview with the boys while they were visiting
their aunt in my hometown of
Spokane! Small world, eh?)
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