The Lion Author:Joseph Kessel Against the backdrop of Kilimanjaro, on a great game preserve in Kenya, the warden, once a great hunter, his ten-year-old daughter Patricia, Oriunga, a primitve Masai warrior, and King, the gorgeous lion the small girl loves and knows so well -- these are the characters in a vibrant, swift, and suspenseful novel in which love and hate and savage... more »ry clash inevitably and then explode.« less