An extraordinary experience of life in the wild at the extremes of physical and psychological endurance . . .
'The baboons jumped up and down, screeching and gesticulating. Only the king had not yet moved. His silver-grey mane stood out. He pulled back his black lips repeatedly, baring his long yellow teeth, but that was all.
Slowly Morengaru began to understand what this meant. He was being challenged - not by the whole troop, but by the leader.
Morengaru did not fire his deadly arrows at the king. Morengaru the human being allowed himself to accept this personal challenge, like a baboon.'
Morengaru the hunter has braved lion and leopard, but this challenge is different. Cast out by his own people, Morengaru is alone in the wilderness. Now he's at the mercy of the baboons for his survival. But what does it take for a man to live as an animal? And how will he reconnect to his human nature?
