Friday, 13 May 2011

BOOK OF THE WEEK: A LION CALLED CHRISTIAN


By Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. This is the story behind the YouTube video of the reunion of Christian the lion and a couple of foppish hippies. Its actually pretty interesting and heartwarming. They try to justify buying a lion cub from Harrods in London in 1969 and keeping him in a store on Kings Rd.....eventually setting him free in Kenya....and when they explain it, you can't help but understand.
There are some tear jerker moments and some chuckles and it makes you wish you could have your own Lion. The only truly annoying thing is how often they mention the "YouTube Sensation"

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