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With My Soul Amongst Lions

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Gareth Patterson is a saint! He is doing what needs to be done concerning the lions. Humanity is a cancer and that cancer is destroying everything in it's path. Buy this book and jump on the band wagon to save the lions!

ALSO: One of the major problems we face is misinformation. One example is Jennifer Henderson's review of Gareth's book "Last of the Free." The book does not begin with Batian's murder, but end's with it. And in the book, Furaha nor any of her cubs get executed! What is wrong with people? I really wish people would read these books prior to writing reviews!

One last thing: If you buy these books and enjoy them, please do your part to help the Tuli Lion Trust.

Here is an idea. If you live in the Tuli area, become a vegetarian! It is the meat industry and cattle ranching that is the bane of lions today. If we can put the meat industry out of business we can save the lions... and some nice cows as well!

This story reveals the coruption and selfishness of the human race and highlight the work and lives of The Adamsons, truly amazing people that fought so selflessly for Lions and the African Wildlife

Gareth Patterson is not a saint as others may think. He is simply a man obsessed by his own experience of his life with lions...and who can blame him for that?? Certainly his courage to follow that obsession knows no bounds but as in most obsessive personalities he is almost totally unable to see other viewpoints ..... to the point where his own and the lives of the lions he has habituated so totally are sometimes at risk. It's a simple biological maxim that if we interfere we change the reality!!! We cant even observe an electron without affecting its behaviour so how are we to weave in and out of lions' lives without often horrendous
repercussions. The truth is ...we cannot. Gareth Patterson is that wonderful individual...a self righteous 'eco warrior' who sees one rule for his views and another for everyone else. Yes he has a wonderful heart and I admire him greatly....but to try and read his clumsy and inarticulate 'writing' is painful in the extreme. Get a ghost writer to help make the basis of his observations readable and more engaging and maybe we have something which can do a better job for the critters.
But I fear Gareth may simply be too self absorbed to see the bigger picture.

Of course it's his right to do what he wants in regard to writing but I was disappointed in the extreme with this clumsy short-sighted book