The day I became a ‘crocodile man’
Mar 21, 2022
3 minutes
Benedict Allen
As children, we all dream of what we might do when grown up, and my dream was that I’d be an explorer like Sir Walter Raleigh, Dr Livingstone or Scott of the Antarctic – one of those sturdy characters who went off to discover things about faraway worlds. But as years went by – this was the 1960s – I realised the world was by now largely explored. Besides, it turned out that expeditions cost quite a lot of money.
Perhaps that childhood dream would have
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