Patricia's father shoots King in order to protect Ouriounga from certain death. Ouriounga, a teenage Maasai, who wishes to marry Patricia, decides to prove his worth by killing a lion to gain her respect, as is custom in his tribe.
The plot of the story revolves around the friendship between Patricia and a lion called King, whom Patricia raised since he was a cub. The story is narrated through a French man on a visit to Kenya. She is popular with both animals and people. Plot summary: Patricia has a rare gift to communicate with animals, and thinks she can control everything. The novel was translated into English by Peter Green and was made into a movie starring William Holden in 1962. Condition is excellent, binding is tight, pages are clean, doesn't look as though it has ever been read. Whether or not the psychologists would accept this book as healthy fare for the junior high school group, the, magic proximity of wild life and bizarre experience should hold any age level.The Lion by Joseph Kessel, Published by Alfred Knopf of New York, 1st American Edition, 1959, hardcover no dust jacket.
Because Patricia knows that this stranger shares her extra-sensory passion for the animals, she allows him into their world, but he is able to help only when the laws of nature take over and the child is released through tragedy. The mother, driven toward unbalance by her child's preoccupation with ""King"", the lion, begs a visitor to help. The child has been brought up so attuned to wild animals that a lion cub she has raised becomes her sisters and brothers, her slave, her obsession, and her potential lover. Patricia's father, a lion of a man, turns from a career as legendary hunter to become warden of an English game preserve. The beauty of Kenya and its inhabitants is overwhelming, the drama persistent and weird. An adult best-seller of 1960 reissued for grades 6-9 concerns itself with a ten year-old girl grown up with wild animals in the Kipling tradition, with Freudian overtones which the children won't recognize.
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