"will appeal even to those who would never normally pick up a book on the natural world." - Mary Beard, The Guardian 'Books of the Year'"Considering that 30-odd titles have appeared in Reaktion's superbly realised Animals series, it has taken a surprising time to reach the king of beasts. Still, it was worth the wait. Jackson has produced a fascinating volume of leonine revelations . . . she provides plenty for big cat lovers to purr about." - The Independent"More than 35 monographs have now been published in the Reaktion Series on animals, and Lion is no different from the rest in being professionally written, beautifully illustrated, and having as its theme the history of the relationship between humans and a single species of animal. In this book it is the relationship over the centuries between humans and lions or rather, it could be said, between the two master predators." - Anthrozoös