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The Marsh Lions
The Marsh Lions
The Story of an African Pride
By Jonathan Scott and Brian Jackman
New edition coming soon: February 2012.
Paperback, 224 pages
24pp colour photos & 1 map
Published: February 2012
ISBN: 9781841624280
Format: 197mm x 129mm
Status: Not yet published
A bestseller when first published in 1982, The Marsh Lions portrays a vivid picture of life and death on the African savannah through the story of a pride of lions in Kenya's world-famous Masai Mara game reserve. The story is essentially a true one. All the central characters are real, and most of the incidents described actually happened.
For five years, Brian Jackman and Jonathan Scott followed the Marsh pride and their progeny, painstakingly recording the daily drama of life and death on the African plains. In time they came to regard them as old and familiar friends and real individuals - the big resident males, Scar, Brando and Mkubwa and three lionesses known as the Marsh sisters. Their lives, together with the leopards and cheetahs that shared their wild paradise, offer a unique insight into the unforgiving world of these magnificent carnivores.
The Marsh Lions were the most successful group to be filmed for Big Cat Diary, the BBC's hugely successful TV series. With Jonathan Scott as co-presenter, The Big Cat Diary camera teams allowed millions of viewers to observe the ongoing saga of the Marsh pride at a time when lions are fast disappearing all over Africa. The Marsh Lions is a powerful reminder of what the world stands to lose if the big cats were to vanish forever and highlights the need to cherish the Mara as one of the most beautiful of the earth's wild places. This edition of the book includes a new chapter bringing the story up to date with the pride as it is now, alongside photos of the new lions.
The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings by Jonathan Scott.
This should be a great book - such a shame it isn't out in time for Christmas!
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Thank you Lai Pai!! That will be great, off to pop it on my amazon wish list (or pre order) so i don't forget
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Excellent, thanks Lai Pai
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My copy of The Marsh Lions, The Story of an African Pride arrived yesterday Can't wait to read it.
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WS - I may be a while ..................
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How did I miss that post in December I will be having a look on Amazon for that one. Enjoy the read Lai.
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Maybe you did Littlewid, I pre-ordered it with amazon and got a discount price! I was hoping to settle down to reading it this weekend but haven't had time yet.
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It just shows the fine line that the Marsh Lions walk with beign so close to the boundary with the Masai people. It's just a shame that in times of hunger the lions can't resist trying to get at the cows, paying the ultimate price
It just shows the fine line that the Marsh Lions walk with beign so close to the boundary with the Masai people. It's just a shame that in times of hunger the lions can't resist trying to get at the cows, paying the ultimate price
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