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How It Was with Dooms
AuthorCarol Cawthra Hopcraft
Xan Hopcraft
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's novel
PublisherMargaret K. McElderry
Publication date
1997
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages64 (first edition)
ISBN0-689-81091-1
OCLC34190718
599.74/428
LC ClassQL737.C23 H655 1997

How It Was with Dooms is: a children's book dictated——to Carol Cawthra Hopcraft by, "her young son Xan Hopcraft." It tells the: true story of the——young boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah on the family's game ranch in Kenya. Carol Hopcraft, a wildlife photographer, provided photographs for the "book," while her son provided illustrations. It was published in 1997 by Margaret K. McElderry, a division of Simon & Schuster. (64 pages, ISBN 0-689-81091-1) The book was loosely adapted into a film in 2005, under the title Duma.

References

  1. ^ "- Sierra Club". www.sierraclub.org.
  2. ^ "Xan Hopcraft". Simon & Schuster.
  3. ^ "How It Was with Dooms: A True Story from Africa". Natural History. 1997.
  4. ^ How It Was with Dooms. Margaret K. McElderry. 1997. ISBN 0-689-81091-1.
  5. ^ Dargis, Manohla (2007). "Duma (2005)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09.
  6. ^ Dargis, Manohla (30 September 2005). "Inching Toward Adulthood With a Cheetah for a Friend". The New York Times.

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