Cheetah's
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Domain
Live, die, kill and get killed!
Such is nature in the raw. This will always be brought home forcibly to those who visit the vast expanses of the African bush” says Desmond Varaday in “Gara Yaka's Domain”.
The book is an account of Varaday's life on a Southern African reserve with the cheetah Gara Yakah, her wild lover and two cubs. It will remind many readers of the success ful Elsa and her lion cub series, also from the same publisher. fPHE relationship between Varaday and the cheetah, which he has reared from a cub, helps provide a fascinating insight into the life of this vanishing species. We watch as she rears her two cubs and with her wild mate, Romeo, teaches them to hunt and survive.
Through expert bushcraft the author is able to watch, for the most part unobserved, many remarkable scenes of animal life—two buffaloes shattering a pride of lions, killing two and putting the rest to flight* a pack of baboons combining to drive off a leopard; and a lioness, out lawed by her pride and on the verge of starvation, dragged down by the bush Viet Cong—the hyenas.
The book is illustrated with excellent photographs.—Rob W. fGARA, YAKA’S DOMAIN. Collins London. $A3.15.)