The narrator, never named during the novel, Africas travels to discover its treasures. His journey lamène to stay in an animal reservation in Kenya. There he met its director, a repentant hunter with whom it binds of friendship, his wife, who longs for life in English society, and their daughter Patricia, who seems to communicate with wild animals. Fascinated by this little girl, he goes to his side to discover the most hidden aspects of the reserve, majestic animals, the proud Maasai people. Above all, it will be the privileged witness of the relationship between Patricia King, the lion. Classic studied in high school, Doeuvre Chief Kessel can be read and reread. The author informs us his emotion at the beauty and grandeur that surrounds it, and tells us a moving story of a girl and dune lion. The only regret colonialist overtones, clean at the time. This book not nempêche BE fabulous novel to advise all those who love to read.