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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 Royal Patron of the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre in South Africa and of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia.
List of contents
Foreword by Jonathan and Angela Scott
Author’s note
Introduction
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Epilogue
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photography credits
About the author
By Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent - Foreword by Jonathan Scott
Summary
A Cheetah's Tale - wildlife autobiography of HRH Princess Michael set in Mozambique, holiday reads and travel literature, the cheetah version of 'Born Free', including the story of how a young Princess Michael of Kent raised a cheetah cub called Tess, plus her recollections of the African landscape, wildlife and people in the 1960s.
