It is one thing for an author to invent a particular mountain lion so that the reader will empathize with lion life in Arizona. It's something else again to invest the lion with all the feelings and sympathies of a human.
The canyons of Arizona are the setting for this sensitive, poetic story of one of our least known but most powerful and elusive American animals, the mountain lion. With extraordinary insight, Robert Murphy probes the inevitable dramatic conflicts and underlying contrasts when a wild creature tries to follow her natural instincts in a land gradually being changed by civilization.
Seeta, a young lion, strangely restive because she is of mating age, leaves the safety of her cave high on a cliff overlooking a canyon. SHe finds the dangers of the wilderness becoming more and more predictable, but the complexities of civilized men are utterly confusing.
Seeta is a being of strenth and beauty, playing her role as nature intended in a "lovely, vast, and undusturbed world that all too soon would diminish around her."
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