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title: "A Man Called Lion: The Life and Times of John Howard Pondoro Taylor Hardcover – November 27, 2002"
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# A Man Called Lion: The Life and Times of John Howard Pondoro Taylor Hardcover – November 27, 2002

**Brand:** peter hathaway capstickjoseph vance
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- **What is this?** A Man Called Lion: The Life and Times of John Howard Pondoro Taylor Hardcover – November 27, 2002 by peter hathaway capstickjoseph vance
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## Customer Reviews

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    From one who knew Pondoro Taylor
  

*by N***M on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2011*

John Pondoro Taylor and my father met each other in World War II and continued to maintain contact later. (Taylor was based for a while in India during the War.) Both were intelligence officers and both were avid hunters though my father was a sportman who hunted tigers in India and never in Africa.I met Pondoro only once at our home in India, shortly before he died but kept in touch through letters. My memory is that he was returning from Australia and stopped in India on the way to England. This was shortly before his death. He was then in his sixties.Capstick exaggerates the misery of his final years in London. Pondoro had close association with the great British gunmakers, especially John Rigby and Holland & Holland, but I don't know if he had any business dealings with them. He inherited his father's title and was known in later life as Sir John Taylor. His father Sir William Taylor was a famous surgeon who knew my father as a medical student in London.In person and in letters, Pondoro didn't come across as a teller of tall tales. He had the British reserve though Irish in his attitude towards what he regarded as British hypocrisy. As far as Pondoro's homosexuality is concerned, it is pure conjecture on Capstick's part and probably untrue. I say this based on the fact that some years after his death, at Cambridge University, I met a striking looking African woman from Angola who told me she was Pondoro's daughter. She didn't look like him but had some of his mannerisms down to an Irish accent.None of this matters. As far as I am concerned Pondoro was a wonderful man and a wonderful writer, whose writing is much better than anything Capstick ever wrote. I feel that Capstick's book is unfair to Pondoro's memory.

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    Thanks
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2019*

Thanks

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    Three Stars
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018*

fair book but not the wild ride a usual Capstick book is

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