Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa - Hardcover

Fitzjohn, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670918911 ISBN 13: 9780670918911

Publisher: Viking, 2010

Synopsis

Born Wild is a story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African conservation. Following Tony Fitzjohn's journey from London bad boy to African wildlife warrior, the heart of the story is a series of love affairs with the world's most beautiful and endangered creatures - affairs that so often end in pain, for to succeed in re-introducing a lion or leopard to the wild is to be deprived of their companionship.

Tony tells of his twenty years in Kenya with George Adamson of Born Free fame - a time of discovery, isolation and frequent danger living far from civilisation. And when he was prevented from re-introducing any more animals into the wild and made unwelcome in the country he loved, Tony had to start anew in Tanzania.

About this title

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Rare Book

Review:

Hugely compelling and funnily written. From tragedies of the worst kind to triumphs unimaginable, he's a true pioneer making up solutions to situations as he goes along (Martin Clunes)

Brilliant ... inspiring, moving and exciting. A true African adventure of epic proportions (Ben Fogle)

Born Wild describes his breathless roller coaster across the African savannah with passion and humour, an inspirational tale of what one comitted individual can achieve against the odds (Brian Jackman Sunday Telegraph)

The passages describing the lions the three men were raising and rehabilitating into the wild are odes to harmony, serentiy and understanding (Telegraph)

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0670918911
• ISBN 13: 9780670918911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332