I Can't Eat My Guinea Pig

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Charlie Hamilton-James is the photographer behind some of the world's most iconic wildlife images and now, in this hilarious and irreverent memoir, he shares the chaos that has characterised life behind the lens. Sunrise on the Serengeti, waiting for the sound of thunder to signal the approaching wildebeest migration, Charlie Hamilton-James is desperately hungover. This rip-roaring memoir is Fear and Loathing behind the scenes of a big budget wildlife documentary, 'gonzo journalism' in the jungle. Eaten alive by insects, sustained on guinea pig meat and cocaine, Hamilton-Jones has lived in the trenches, fighting for the ephemeral perfect shot. But amidst the debauchery and very real danger are moments of transcendence; a chance to see what the rest of the world will have to watch on television. In I Can't Eat My Guinea Pig, he tells the story of an extraordinary life, lived alongside the advent of modern nature photography and signposted with his most iconic images.

Charlie Hamilton-James is one of the world's leading nature photographers. He worked at the BBC NHU in Bristol and is now a National Geographic Photographer - one of the greatest of the 21st century. His talks on his adventures over the last 25 years are delivered to theatre audiences of up to three thousand in the US. His instagram account has to 245,000 followers (and he is a turn key contributor to the 100 million Nat Geo Instagram account, the largest corporate site on the app) and his posts gain likes into the tens of thousands. Charlie travels the world most of his time living in Wyoming and in Gloucestershire when he gets the chance.