ABOUT THE BOOK
This enchanting autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent recounts a girl growing up and the mind blowing bond that can exist
amongst individuals and animals. Flawlessly composed by a characteristic storyteller and pressed with astonishing photographs, it is additionally
an awesome picture of Africa - the cheetah rendition of Born Free - and will please perusers around the world. In the mid-1960s, Marie
Christine von Reibnitz (who might later progress toward becoming HRH Princess Michael of Kent) lived with her father on his farm in
Mozambique. Then just a teenager, Princess Michael was spellbound by the African scene, by the wildlife and by the general population she met.
It was one of the most joyful circumstances of her life and she recounts that it was a stranded cheetah cub (called Tess) who had a gigantic
influence in making it so. The relationship between the young Princess Michael and Tess, whom she hand-raised and later effectively discharged
into the wild having prepared her to chase and make due alone, will touch each peruser’s heart. The occasions of that period have stayed with
Princess Michael for whatever is left of her life and in A Cheetah’s Tale she reviews the tale of Tess, as well as the substances of life in Africa: from
awakening amidst the night to discover her father had quite recently shot a lioness that was going to eat her to finding a savage Black Mamba
nestled into the loo! Tess was the motivation for Princess Michael’s lifelong enthusiasm for cheetah protection and the epilog covers some of her
work as Patron of the Endangered Species Center in South Africa and of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia.