How It Was with Dooms

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)^[1][2][3][4] The book was loosely adapted into a film in 2005, under the title Duma.^[5][6]

How It Was with Dooms

Author	Carol Cawthra Hopcraft Xan Hopcraft
Language	English
Genre	Children's novel
Publisher	Margaret K. McElderry
Publication date	1997
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	64 (first edition)
ISBN	0-689-81091-1
OCLC	34190718
Dewey Decimal	599.74/428
LC Class	QL737.C23 H655 1997