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Because each city was so far from the one that preceded it , Jean Pierre Michel was forced to assemble a new collection in each new place he went , thus experiencing respective seasons with objects of the Pacific Northwest , the South during its reconstruction , the City of the Founding Fathers , the Seenaw and Moojalook Indian tribes , and , finally , whatever his heart desired . The day after that they tried again with the help of wildlife rangers , and this time they did find the lion , with a piece of Linyambe 's leg in his throat . She really did lose her footing , horribly , when she hit the ground , and rolled over . The fracture that had fallen between them the day of the crash , when they had each retreated into great guilty rooms of silence , had grown steadily wider , and the father had felt each year the weakening of his ability to reach his son . People all over the world struggle to preserve their traditions , which are often connected to animals : the Masai to the lion , the Tibetans to the snow leopard , and the Inuit people to the polar bear . They can change shape , disappear in a puff of smoke , go invisible , use potions and poisons , dissolve into the ground , and put on spectacular color displays . But it was n't until last spring that the island 's owners agreed to sell a large portion of the coveted ground : roughly half of the 2,200 acres [ 890 hectares ] on this unique , T-shaped isle .