A Cheetah's Tale [Hardcover]

A royally enchanting story of the unique bond between a cheetah cub and the rather special girl who adopted her.A beautifully written and entertaining book[A] much acclaimed account of her two years in AfricaA 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.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 readers heart. The events of that period have remained with Princess Michael for the rest of her life and in A Cheetahs 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 Michaels lifelong interest in cheetah conservation and thel¸