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Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard
Caesar The Life Story of a PandaLeopard Author:Patrick O'Brian CAESAR tells the picturesque, enchanting, and quite bloodthirsty story of a creature whose father is a giant panda and whose mother is a snow leopard. Through the eyes and voice of this fabulous creature, we learn of his life as a cub, his first hunting exploits, his first encounters with man, his capture and taming. CAESAR was published in 19... more »30, three months after O'Brian's fifteenth birthday, but the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian readers savor in the Aubrey/Maturin series is already in evidence. The book combines Stephen Maturin's fascination with and encyclopedic knowledge of natural history with the narrative charm of Rudyard Kipling's THE JUNGLE BOOK. When originally published, reviews hailed the author as the "boy-Thoreau."« less