In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of the only large wild cat, other than the American cougar, that is not spotted or striped.
Philip Caputo describes his experiences as part of a photography and research safari mounted to unlock the secrets of the man-eating lions of the Tsavo area of East Africa, a region known for its abnormally large, maneless lions with a taste for human prey.