With My Soul Amongst Lions

"With My Soul Amongst Lions, is a very open and sad book. It tells the truth about Southern Africa and some of the policies that landowners have towards wild animals. His lions die, not from being lions, but at the hands of man. His lions are exactly what my hippos are to me. The book allows the reader to be with Gareth in his search for safety for the last of George Adamson’s lions. There is only one story that really ends up with a sort of happy ending. This book must be read by anybody who wants to read the truth about Africa, and not just look at pretty wildlife pictures. I do not know Gareth personally but I believe from his writings that his soul is clean. Animals will always be persecuted if man does not see them as having feelings, emotions, the ability to think. Not so long ago man believed earth was flat. Man would never have believed that we could fly to distant planets. Man would never have accepted that slavery would be abolished and human rights take precedence over greed. I like to think that in my lifetime man will see into the eyes of all of nature’s beasts. Mounting a lion on a hunter’s wall would not look half as impressive if the teeth of the lion were not displayed. Most taxidermists make the animal in question look as big and as dangerous as possible when they mount it. I mean, making a giraffe look dangerous, when it’s standing stuffed in a wealthy American’s hallway, with its long eyelashes and deep dark brown eyes staring into the space of some house, must be pretty difficult, but there are many dead giraffes in such settings."