At the time there were lions throughout Africa. Panthers and leopards. This book has caused many vocations hunters, some, over time, replaced the gun by the camera, others have become killers or poachers. This is not glorious, with a good gun, kill a wild animal. Bombonnel is one of the few to have been injured, others were content to shoot. Before there was the ayatollahs in the forests shores of the Caspian, royal tigers. This book Bombonnel had another effect on others: who attended considered dangerous hunts in the books of Bombonnel, Gerard or Pertuiset, they never hunted.