The Storm Leopard is the story of a journey from the Cape to the Serengeti Plains and the author's search for an answer to the Old Timer, a Kenyan who foretold the end of the wild. Martyn decided on one more trip, but this time without an agenda, without a timetable and without preconceptions: with no purpose other than to know, to feel and to understand. From his first contact with Bushman rock art in the Western Cape, Martyn is drawn into a spiritual journey as he grapples with the quandary of balancing our lifestyles with protecting the environment. His travelling companion, Stu, a fellow scientist and arch cynic, is nettled by this lack of rationality. Marooned together in their 4×4, the friction, humour and hardship of their journey carry the reader across the continent from one adventure to another, to the final revelation atop an isolated kopje in the heart of the Serengeti Plains.The Storm Leopard is a unique book that emanates from the author's passionate affair with nature and many years of experience in the field as an ecologist and consultant in conservation - nothing deals with today's environmental issues in the same way.

Publisher: Whittles Publishing (Now available)

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Preface

Chapter 1

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Martyn Murray is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh