Travels With Gannon & Wyatt ─ Botswana

Winner of the 2013 National Outdoor Book Awards

When Gannon and Wyatt arrive in Botswana for an African safari, they find themselves tangled up in much more than a family vacation. After receiving word that a poacher has shot and wounded a lioness, they set off into the wild in the hopes of saving the mother and her cubs before the poacher finishes the job. While on this amazing journey, they encounter Africa’s Big Five - elephants, rhinos, cape buffalos, leopards, and lions?only to discover that the most dangerous predator in the African bush is not the king of beasts, but man himself.

In the tradition of the historic journals kept by explorers such as Lewis and Clark, Dr. David Livingstone, and Captain James Cook comes the adventure seriesTravels with Gannon and Wyatt. From Africa to the South Pacific, these twin brothers have traveled the world. You never know what they will encounter as they venture into the wild, but one thing is certain - wherever Gannon and Wyatt go, adventure is their constant companion.

You can find Gannon and Wyatt’s blog, photographs, and video footage from their real-life expeditions at travelswithgannonandwyatt.com.

Patti Wheeler, Gannon and Wyatt’s mother, is the cocreator of “Funnays,” a clothing and product line that she helped grow from fledgling start-up to publicly traded company. In 1998, she formed the Wheeler Investment Group. For years, it has been Patti’s goal to create a children’s book series that instills the spirit of exploration in young people. (Future books in this series include adventures in the Great Bear Rainforest, Egypt, and the Serengeti.) In addition to the book series, Patti is executive producer and director of the TV pilot Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Off the Beaten Path: Egypt and cowriter, with Keith Hemstreet, of the screenplayBotswana, which was an official selection of the 2010 Beverly Hills Film Festival.

Keith Hemstreet worked as a producer/writer on the television series Playground Earth, an extreme sports variety show broadcast on Fox Sports Net. His writing has been nominated as a finalist for the Pirate’s Alley/Faulkner Award, the New Century Writer’s Award, and the Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition.