The Marsh Lions
eBook - ePub

The Marsh Lions

The Story of an African Pride

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eBook - ePub

The Marsh Lions

The Story of an African Pride

About this book

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 and Angela Scott.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for the Book
  3. About the authors
  4. Contents
  5. Map
  6. An Introduction to the Masai Mara Game Reserve
  7. Dark Mane’s Pride
  8. A New Alliance
  9. The Long Rains
  10. The Great Migration
  11. The Murram Pit Clan
  12. The Departure of the Herds
  13. The Miti Mbili Pride
  14. The Dogs of Aitong
  15. Summer Slaughter
  16. The Spotted Assassins
  17. The Nomads
  18. Postscript
  19. Epilogue 2011
  20. Author’s Note
  21. Photographer’s Note
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Photographs
  24. Publisher's Information