Synopsis
Gordon Buchanan joins a group of Bushmen in Botswana's Kalahari Desert to learn how to survive on foot among wild lions.
- Programme: Tribes, Predators & Me
- Series: 1
- Episode: Lion People of the Kalahari
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2016
- Geography | Rainforest
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