Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Saving precious lives -- Animal enchantment -- The gregarious Ws -- Vervets, leopards, bushbuck and baboons -- Lady and family -- A mix of wild and domestic -- The changing months of Hwange -- An alien way of life -- 'Wanted' (dead or alive?) -- Misty and Masakhe -- Pans and more of the preposterous -- Sharing the splendour -- The thrill of the unexpected -- Evicted -- The Bvumba's treasures -- Big, and Little, Fives -- The demise of Grantham - and Nicki Mukuru -- Another new beginning -- Days of décor and averted disaster -- Back with the elephants -- Reaffirmation of the Presidential decree -- A week in another wilderness -- The film crew and more crazy carry-on -- Bend-down in Bulawayo -- Garden friends and foes -- Willa -- Christmastide -- A spirit messenger -- Over the railway line -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Back Cover.