I threw the lifebuoy mightily.Photograph: CanongateLord avert their eyes from me, I whispered in my soul.Photograph: CanongateRichard Parker had risen and emerged.Photograph: Canongate
I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.Photograph: CanongateThe blow sent me flying off the boat.Photograph: CanongateI threw the mako towards the stern.Photograph: CanongateI made an exceptional botanical discovery.Photograph: CanongateThere goes our lunch.Photograph: CanongateI had the great luck one summer of studying the three-toed sloth in situ in the equatorial jungles of Brazil.Photograph: CanongateShe came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely as the Virgin Mary.Photograph: CanongateHave I mentioned the chutneys yet?Photograph: Canongate
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