A Note Before You Begin

By Tom Crutchfield, Kevin McCurley, Stacey Crutchfield, and Braxton Warren, with Citadel Culebra.

This book is written for anyone who will spend time near the fresh and brackish waters of Africa. The traveller on safari. The researcher, the aid worker, the NGO field officer, the safari-camp guide. But above all it is written for the people who have no choice in the matter. The rural communities of sub-Saharan Africa, who are born beside these rivers and lakes, who draw their water and wash their clothes and cast their nets in them, and who bury more of their neighbours to crocodiles than any other people on earth. If this book saves a single life, it will most likely be one of theirs.