Author: Anthony Bourke, John Rendall
Translator: Ju-heon Kang
Publisher: Gallion
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About This Book
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a
Lion (Hardcover)
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and
immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving
reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had
left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into
his rightful home in the wild.
A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace”
Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969,
bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For
several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop
on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian
quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a
Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a
fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up--fast--and soon
even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large
enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to
a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English
actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born
Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert
care of “the father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and
John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a
loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into
Africa and a life with other lions.
Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with
more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to
magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and
uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is destined
to become one of the great classics of animal literature.
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