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A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion by Anthony Bourke, John Rendall, George Adamson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion about?
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with __Born Free’s__ George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.__A Lion Called Christian__ tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—__fast__—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film __Born Free__, led to Christian be
Who reads A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anthony Bourke, John Rendall, George Adamson
- Publisher
- Broadway Books; Crown
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780767932301
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (46 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion (1971)
- A Lion Called Christian : the True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion (2009)
- Lion Called Christian: The True Story of Three Friends and Their Remarkable Reunion (2010)
- A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion (2008)
- A Lion Called Christian (2013)
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