A gripping epic of feline survival... The Australian feral cat is very mucha product of human carelessness at best and callousness at worst. As trulywild as the great cats of Africa and Asia, the feral cat is perhaps the mostsuccessful predator in the Australian bush - and a growing threat to therare native marsupials, birds and reptiles. Its agility, speed, huntingacumen and lack of natural predators make it one of that country's mostdestructive introduced species, and naturalists and conservationists see itseradication as vital but unlikely. Love it or hate it, the cat is aworld-class survivor! This is the story of such a cat, seen partly throughthe cat's own eyes and partly through those of an old bushman who isfascinated by a creature his logic tells him he should hate and despise. Thecat's life-long fight for survival is an elemental story of the animalworld, its interplay with the world of humans, and of the natural forceswhich shape both.