Cat calls

The memoir traces Scott's journey

At a time when the planet’s wild spaces are shrinking alarmingly, Jonathan Scott’s memoir, The Big Cat Man, has the ring a joyful ode. Presenter of the hugely popular TV series Big Cat Diary, Scott managed to devote his life to doing, as he put it so eloquently to his professor at Queen’s University, Belfast, “something with wildlife”. He chronicles his journeys through Africa, of months spent with leopards, wild dogs, wildebeest and lions, through words and evocative photographs. Stunning photographs and anecdotes describe the annual migration, and the memoir ends with a sobering trip through the Great Plains, where, not