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Cheetah's Tale, A

Bradt Travel Guides

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Published: 18th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 20mm
Weight: 585g
ISBN-10: 1784770698
ISBN-13: 9781784770693
Barcode No: 9781784770693
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Synopsis
This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. Beautifully written by a natural storyteller and packed with fabulous photographs, it is also a wonderful portrait of Africa - the cheetah version of Born Free - and will delight readers worldwide.In the early 1960s, Marie Christine von Reibnitz (who would later become HRH Princess Michael of Kent) lived with her father on his farm in Mozambique. Then just a teenager, Princess Michael was entranced by the African landscape, by the wildlife and by the people she met. It was one of the happiest times of her life and she recounts that it was an orphaned cheetah cub (called Tess) who played a huge part in making it so. The relationship between the young Princess Michael and Tess, whom she hand-reared and later successfully released into the wild having trained her to hunt and survive on her own, will touch every reader's heart. The events of that period have remained with Princess Michael for the rest of her life and in A Cheetah's Tale she recalls not just the tale of Tess, but also the realities of life in Africa: from waking up in the middle of the night to find her father had just shot a lioness that was about to eat her to discovering a deadly Black Mamba curled up inside the loo! Tess was the inspiration for Princess Michael's lifelong interest in cheetah conservation and the epilogue covers some of her work as Patron of the Endangered Species Centre in South Africa and of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia.

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'A beautifully written and entertaining book' Cotswold Life magazine;'A royally enchanting story of the unique bond between a cheetah cub and the rather special girl who adopted her.' The Mail on Sunday;'A much-acclaimed account of Princess Michael's two years in Africa.' Majesty magazine