The Man-eaters of Tsavo

When we come back, we're gonna hear the rest of the story, but if you wanna just have a starting point on who this man is, you can watch the movie, The Ghost and the Darkness.

Tells you the story of the Man Eaters of Tsavo, but there is so much more to his life.

Back after this.

[upbeat music] The Lions of Zion: Biblical Natural History and the Significance of Israel, that is the name of the book that our guest, Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin, has written.

Yes, Lawrence of Arabia, put those two together.

And on another occasion, Patterson discovered that one of his Jewish soldiers had been sentenced to death for falling asleep on guard duty, and Patterson circumvented the chain of authority, contacting Allenby directly to earn the soldier a reprieve.

And it turns out that [laughs] there were so many people that he intersected with who were great fans of The Man Eaters of Tsavo books that he had written, and that made him attractive, where otherwise they might have shunned him because they were not fans of the Jewish people like he was.

Exactly, and that's how he got connected with Teddy Roosevelt, uh, which was also, you know, very useful.