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Visiting Africa’s game reserves is, for many travellers, all about spotting the Big Five. But what about those animals you have almost zero chance of seeing? Justin Fox decided to draw up a list of the most elusive mammals, then set off to find them – the Cape mountain leopard, aardvark, pangolin, riverine rabbit and naturally occurring white lion. In a humorous, original, offbeat adventure story, he travels around South Africa in search of these ‘impossible’ animals, discovering along the way that the people studying those mysterious beasts are sometimes stranger than the animals themselves. Other books Justin has written about his adventures include With Both Hands Waving (a journey through Mozambique) and The Marginal Safari

(a trip scouting the edge of South Africa). His novel Whoever Fears the Sea was inspired by his visits to the East African coast.