Wild Honey

While the rest of the world looks on in disbelief, life in Zimbabwe lurches on one way or the other.  In Wild Honey Bookey shares the daily life of her family and their park rangers as they rescue and care for a wide variety of animals, confront poachers, fight bush fires and deal with the horrors of elections, inflation, land grabs and disease.

Troubles aside, the real stars of Bookey’s story are “Poombi” the warthog and “Badge” the honey badger.

Since All the Way Home, Poombi has relinquished her place on the family sofa and been reintegrated into the wild. She’s produced numerous generations of offspring, all of whom like to pop into the sanctuary and cause a little havoc.

Badge is the new orphan on the block. Honey badgers are described by Robert Ruark as ‘the meanest animal in the world’ but this delightful little monster steals Richard and Bookey’s hearts the moment he’s delivered to them in a smelly little shoe box. Much to her son David’s bemusement, Badge is moved into his own bedroom and in David’s opinion raised with as much love and a lot less discipline than he was given! 

About the Author

Bookey Peek enjoyed an idyllic childhood in Zimbabwe’s Bvumba mountains and then spent ten years travelling the world. She qualified as a lawyer in Australia but was only too happy to leave the corporate world and return to life in the Zimbabwean bush when she met and married childhood sweet heart Richard Peek.