Michaela Denis was a British-born wildlife documentary film-maker and presenter, working with her Belgian husband, photographer and film-maker, Armand Denis. During the 1950s and early 1960s, they became fixtures on BBC TV, with Michaela's glamorous appeal and enthusiasm adding a sparkle to Armand's quality film-making. Leopard in my Lap is Michaels’s first volume of autobiography and tells the story of seven safari trips taken in the early 1950s in South America, Africa, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. In order to finance their plans to make wildlife documentaries, the couple travelled to Africa in 1950 to work on the feature film, King Solomon's Mines, in which Michaela acted as Deborah Kerr's double. As well as filming exotic wildlife, the couple got to know local tribes in Congo and Australian Aboriginals in the Northern Territory. While based in Nairobi, Michaela adopted a menagerie of wild animals including a bat-eared fox, a New Guinea green snake, two cheetahs and a leopard. Published by W.H. Allen in 1955. Clean copy in good condition. Binding intact. 81 individual photographs.