Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna (National Geographic) (Biography)

by National Geographic Kids (Author), Herman J. Viola (Author), Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $10.66

  Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a first-hand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centres on the raising and grazing of cattle.

  Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery in the warrior tradition. They follow his mischievous antics as a young Maasai cattle herder, coming-of-age initiation, boarding school escapades, soccer success, and journey to America for college. Lekuton's riveting text combines exotic details of nomadic life with the universal experience and emotions of a growing boy.