All the Way Home

• Tells the story of Stone Hills, a game sanctuary and safari lodge in the north-west of Zimbabwe
• Includes tales of the animals that live there - and the staff that made it happen
• Born Free meets Gerald Durrell against a backdrop of Shooting Dogs
   

'You're crazy... she'll take over and shove us out. I can just see this place in winter: no carpets, acres of wet newspaper underfoot, family huddled under blankets while the pig hogs the fire...'

Richard and Bookey Peek hadn't planned on adopting a warthog, any more than one would plan a tidal wave, a tornado or triplets, but at Stone Hills, natural disasters have a way of happening when you least expect them.Through Zimbabwe's darkest days, Stone Hills has become a world in itself, a place where you might share your shower with an owl or your bed with a baby squirrel, where crocodiles are named after unpopular guests and a rather special warthog named Poombi relinquishes her place on the sofa to return to the wild - much to her indignation.

Engaging and delightful, this book is the exhilarating and intensely moving story of a wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Zimbabwe's ancient, majestic Matobo Hills. It is a testament to one family's passion for Africa's wildlife and their conviction that nothing can change the essential nature of the land and its people.

Both Richard and Bookey Peak are professional safari guides. After an idyllic childhood in the Bvumba mountains and ten years spent travelling the world, Bookey became a lawyer, a profession she was only too happy to leave for a life in the bush. She was the winner of the prestigious Africa Geographic Travel Writer of the Year competition in 2003. Richard Peek spent fourteen years in the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management as a game ranger and then as an ecologist. He later became curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History.