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Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
by Richardson, Kevin; Park, Tony | HC | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0312556748
- Book Title
- Part of the Pride : My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Nature
- Topic
- Animals / Big Cats, Animals / General
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 16.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube(R) of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The film showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, crouching down at their level, playing with them and, sometimes, even kissing them on the nose--all without ever being attacked or injured. The films' popularity skyrocketed and Richardson became an international sensation. In Part of the Pride, Kevin Richardson tells the story of his life and work, how he grew from a young boy who cared for so many animals that he was called The Bird Man of Orange Grove to an adolescent who ran wild and, finally, to a man who is able to cross the divide between humans and predators. As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has broken every safety rule known to humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting common misconceptions that breaking an animal's spirit with sticks and chains is the best way to subdue them, he uses love, understanding and trust to develop personal bonds with them. His unique method of getting to know their individual personalities, what makes each of them angry, happy, upset, or irritated--just like a mother understands a child--has caused them to accept him like one of their own into their fold. Like anyone else who truly loves animals, Richardson allows their own stories to share center stage as he tells readers about Napoleon and Tau, the two male lions he calls his brothers; the amazing Meg, a lioness Richardson taught to swim; the fierce Tsavo who savagely attacked him; and the heartbreaking little hyena called Homer who didn't live to see his first birthday. Richardson also chronicles his work on the feature film The White Lion and has a lot to say about the state of lion farming and hunting in South Africa today. In Part of the Pride, Richardson, with novelist Tony Park, delves into the mind of the big cats and their world to show readers a different way of understanding the dangerous big cats of Africa.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312556748
ISBN-13
9780312556747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72429349
Product Key Features
Book Title
Part of the Pride : My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Big Cats, Animals / General
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ql31.R46.A3 2009
Reviews
"Animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has such an intimate bond with big cats that he can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of attack…So instinctively in tune is he with these beasts whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel, that mother hyenas even allow him to hold their newborn cubs without pouncing to the rescue."-- Glenys Roberts,The Daily Mail(UK), "Animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has such an intimate bond with big cats that he can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of attack…So instinctively in tune is he with these beasts whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel, that mother hyenas even allow him to hold their newborn cubs without pouncing to the rescue."-- Glenys Roberts, The Daily Mail (UK), "Animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has such an intimate bond with big cats that he can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of attack...So instinctively in tune is he with these beasts whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel, that mother hyenas even allow him to hold their newborn cubs without pouncing to the rescue." -- Glenys Roberts, The Daily Mail (UK), Animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has such an intimate bond with big cats that he can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of attack...So instinctively in tune is he with these beasts whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel, that mother hyenas even allow him to hold their newborn cubs without pouncing to the rescue.
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-016258
Dewey Decimal
599.757092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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